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Statement by the photographer, Alec SOTH
"If the pictures in this book - A Pound of Pictures' - are about anything other than their shimmering surfaces, they are about the process of their own making. They are about going into the ecstatically specific world and creating a connection between the ephemeral (light, time) and the physical (eyeballs, film)." (© Alec SOTH)
Background information
"'A Pound of Pictures' by American Magnum photographer Alec SOTH is a stream-of-consciousness celebration of the photographic medium, bringing together an entirely new collection of his work made between 2018 and 2021. This publication coincides with solo exhibitions at Sean Kelly Gallery (New York), Weinstein Hammons Gallery (Minneapolis), and Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco).
Content, additional informations (about the SIGNED edition)
Depicting a sprawling array of subjects — from Buddhist statues and birdwatchers to sun-seekers and busts of Abe Lincoln — this book, 'A Pound of Pictures' by Alec SOTH reflects on the photographic desire to pin down and crystallize experience, especially as it is represented and recollected by printed images. Throughout this eclectic sequence are the recurring presences of iconography, of souvenirs and mementos, and of the image-makers that surround us day to day. Forming a winding, ruminative road trip, these photographs by Alec SOTH are followed by his own notes and reflections in an extended afterword. Each book contains five randomized replica vernacular photographs loosely inserted within the pages.
The SIGNED edition of 'A Pound of Pictures' includes a slip signed by the artist and bound into the inside back cover. The book will be published as an embossed linen hardcover with front and back tip-in. Three different papers, including a marbled Japanese stock and five randomized replica vernacular photographs." (slightly adapted publisher's text, © Mack books, 2021)