SOTH, Alec - I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating - SPECIAL EDITION, SIGNED & WITH PRINT!

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Personal statement by photographer Alec SOTH

"After the publication of my last book about social life in America, 'Songbook', and a retrospective of my four, large-scale American projects, 'Gathered Leaves', I went through a long period of rethinking my creative process. For over a year I stopped travelling and photographing people. I barely took any pictures at all. When I returned to photography, I wanted to strip the medium down to its primary elements. Rather than trying to make some sort of epic narrative about America, I wanted to simply spend time looking at other people and, hopefully, briefly glimpse their interior life. In order to try and access these lives, I made all of the photographs in interior spaces. While these rooms often exist in far-flung places, it’s only to emphasize that these pictures aren’t about any place in particular. Whether a picture is made in Odessa or Minneapolis, my goal was the same: to simply spend time in the presence of another beating heart.” (© Alec SOTH)

Background information

"Taking its name from a line in Wallace Stevens’ short poem 'The Gray Room', the photo volume 'I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating' by US-American Magnum photographer Alec SOTH is a lyrical exploration of intimacy. While these large-format color photographs are made all over the world, they aren’t about any particular place or population. Whether made in Odessa or his hometown of Minneapolis, 'I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating' is fundamentally about intimate encounters in private rooms." (© Mack books, 2019)

About US-American Magnum photographer, Alec SOTH (b.1969)

Photo books by as well as with works by Alec SOTH