Songbook (Second Printing)

Soth, Alec

ISBN 10: 191016402X / ISBN 13: 9781910164020

Published by Mack Books, [London, UK], 2015

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Signed by the Photographer Alec Soth Songbook (First edition. Second printing) ?This is the closest we have to an Americans for our time. CAPOLAVORO! already hailed critically as a classic. One of the best photo books in a lonnnnng time? 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 state while working on his self-published newspaper, The LBM Dispatch, as well as on assignment for the New York Times and others. From upstate New York to Silicon Valley, Soth attended hundreds of meetings, dances, festivals and communal gatherings in search of human interaction in an era of virtual social networks. With Songbook, Soth has stripped these pictures of their news context in order to highlight the longing for connection at their root. Fragmentary, funny and sad, Songbook is a lyrical depiction of the tension between American individualism and the desire to be united. Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and Sao Paulo Biennials. In 2008, a survey exhibition of Soth?s work was exhibited at Jeu de Paume in Paris and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. In 2010, the Walker Art Center produced a traveling survey exhibition of Soth?s work entitled From Here To There. Soth has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (2013). In 2008, Soth founded his own publishing company, Little Brown Mushroom. Soth is represented by Sean Kelly in New York, Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, and is a member of Magnum Photos. First edition. Second printing ISBN 9781910164020 144 pages, 75 tritone plates 28.5 cm x 27.3 cm Embossed Hardcover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Songbook (Second Printing)
• Publisher: Mack Books, [London, UK]
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191016402X
• ISBN 13: 9781910164020
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Photographic Books

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Synopsis

Connu pour ses portraits obsédants d'Américains solitaires dans Sleeping by the Mississippi et Broken Manual, Alec Soth a récemment tourné son objectif vers la vie communautaire dans le pays. Pour l'aider dans sa recherche, Soth a assumé le rôle de plus en plus obsolète de journaliste de journal communautaire. De 2012 à 2014, Soth a voyagé État par État tout en travaillant sur son journal auto-publié, The LBM Dispatch, ainsi qu'en mission pour le New York Times et d'autres. Du nord de l'État de New York à la Silicon Valley, Soth a assisté à des centaines de réunions, danses, festivals et rassemblements communautaires à la recherche d'une interaction humaine à l'ère des réseaux sociaux virtuels. Avec Songbook, Soth a dépouillé ces images de leur contexte d'actualité afin de mettre en évidence le désir de connexion à leur racine. Fragmentaire, drôle et triste, Songbook est une représentation lyrique de la tension entre l'individualisme américain et le désir de s'unir.