2011
Alec Soth
Rome
Alec Soth
Rome, 2011
From YET Together (Special Edition Covid-19)
Inkjet Print, 20 x 26.9 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur, acquisition with funds from Odinga Picenoni Hagen AG
2020-001-020
Rome, 2011
From YET Together (Special Edition Covid-19)
Inkjet Print, 20 x 26.9 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur, acquisition with funds from Odinga Picenoni Hagen AG
2020-001-020
b. 1969 (Minneapolis, US), lives and works in Minneapolis, US
While the photographer sets up and adjusts his bulky 8×10 plate camera, his subjects noticeably relax, releasing any contrived poses. Alec Soth’s portraits are a blend of dream and reality, intimacy and otherness. Driven by wanderlust, he traverses the American landscape like a hunter and gatherer, through his native Minnesota (Sleeping by the Mississippi) over to the Canadian border, where newlyweds enjoy their honeymoon at the brink of Niagara Falls (Niagara). Soth follows the imaginary tracks of other photographers of America, in search of national myths, collective memories, and dispatches from the future.