I first encountered Alec Soth’s photographs while wandering through the 2004 Whitney Biennial. The series on display, Sleeping by the Mississippi, stirred something in me that I still can’t quite shake; the images, possessed with a steely – and uniquely American – longing, chronicled several road trips Soth took down south, using only the Mississippi [...]
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Alec Soth’s Rich Imaginary World
March 17, 2010 – 9:16 am
Photos from Dog Days Bogotá Minneapolis-based photographer Alec Soth is fast at work at becoming a modern master. Since his big splash at the 2004 Whitney Biennial and the appearance of his sensational debut book, Sleeping by the Mississippi (Steidl, 2004), Soth has been a steady contributor for numerous glossy magazines and his languorous landscapes and [...]
