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: The Anti-Fashion Fashion Photographer
October 3, 2011 – 6:11 am
By Carmen Winant
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Posted in Art, Books, Fashion, Features
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Also tagged Alec Soth, Hammer Museum, John Kelsey, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Rodarte
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Bitch Is the New Black
July 22, 2009 – 3:16 am
The following is an excerpt from a report on the study of the language of more than 3,400 gallery press releases from 2006 and 2007: In the press releases sent out by Chelsea galleries in 2006, the words “his” and “he” were 48% more common than “her” and “she.” The following year, 2007, the gap [...]
By Jemal Young
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Posted in Art, Events
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Also tagged Amanda Ross-Ho, Anna Sew Hoy, Annie Lapin, Bari Ziperstein, Bitch Is the New Black, Cathy Akers, Emma Gray, Honor Fraser, Kathryn Andrews, Kirsten Stoltmann, Krysten Cunningham, Mindy Shapero, Pearl C. Hsiung, Rosson Crow, Ruby Neri, Shana Lutker
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