Alec Soth (b. 1969, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American photographer. His pictures represent the daily life of the inhabitants, and the landscapes of the American Midwest.
Sleeping by the Mississippi is a photobook whose public and critical success has not failed, since its first publication by Steidl in 2004 (then Steidl, 2008 then Mack, 2017). It was followed by Niagara. (Steidl, 2006 then reprinted by Mack, 2018).
Soth has been a member of the Magnum Photos agency since 2004.
Photo: © Alec Soth / Magnum, Unselfie
Alec Soth (b. 1969, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American photographer. His pictures represent the daily life of the inhabitants, and the landscapes of the American Midwest.
Sleeping by the Mississippi is a photobook whose public and critical success has not failed, since its first publication by Steidl in 2004 (then Steidl, 2008 then Mack, 2017). It was followed by Niagara. (Steidl, 2006 then reprinted by Mack, 2018).
Soth has been a member of the Magnum Photos agency since 2004.
Photo: © Alec Soth / Magnum, Unselfie
2019 I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating
2015 Songbook
Gathered Leaves
2013 Ping Pong
2012 Looking for Love / 1996
2010 Broken Manual
2008 The Last Days of W
2007 Paris / Minnesota
Fashion Magazine
Dog Days, Bogotá
2006 NIAGARA
2004 Sleeping by the Mississippi
Presentation by Jiazazhi: " We are honored to publish Alec Soth's first Chinese photobook, accompanying his first solo exhibition The Space Between Us, at « Shanghai Center of Photography » [held August 1st to November 20th, 2020]. The particularly selected photographs are from all series of Soth, with five essays by Liu Heung Shing, Karen Smith, Shi...
Presentation by Mack: " In the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut monograph Sleeping by the Mississippi, Alec Soth turned his eye to another iconic body of water, Niagara Falls. As with his photographs of the Mississippi, Soth's pictures of Niagara are less about natural wonder than human desire. « I went to Niagara for the same reason as the...
I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating...
Presentation by Mack: " Taking its name from a line in the Wallace Stevens' poem The Gray Room Alec Soth's latest book is a lyrical exploration of the limitations of photographic representation. While these large-format color photographs are made all over the world, they aren't about any particular place or population. By a process of intimate and often...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: an exhibition catalogue in reference to Walt Whitman "Alec Soth’s reputation as one of the leading lights of contemporary photographic practice is largely predicated on the books he has published. This unusual catalogue accompanies a touring exhibition which uses the four major bodies of work which Soth has published as...
Songbook (1st ed. / 2nd printing)
.In stock.Presentation by Mack: "Known for his haunting portraits of solitary Americans in Sleeping by the Mississippi and Broken Manual, Alec Soth has recently turned his lens toward community life in the country. To aid in his search, Soth assumed the increasingly obsolescent role of community newspaper reporter. From 2012-2014, Soth traveled state by...
Alec Soth's personal collection of Ping Pong players, gathered from here and there over the years...A book of vernacular photography, but weird and funny !46 pages - Hardcover Little Brown Mushroom, 2013 New - Mint condition
Looking for Love, 1996 reprend des clichés réalisés par Alec Soth avant Sleeping by the Mississippi et avant la célébrité, à une époque où il vivait dans le noir - travaillant comme développeur dans un laboratoire de tirage et traînant dans les bars le soir... Il avait alors 25 ans et se sentait seul, attendant la lumière, attendant l'amour. Ces images...