Background information
"Known for his haunting portraits of solitary Americans in 'Sleeping by the Mississippi' and 'Broken Manual', american photographer ans MAGNUM member, Alec SOTH, has recently turned his lens toward community life in the country. To aid in his search, Alec SOTH assumed the increasingly obsolescent role of community newspaper reporter. From 2012-2014, Alec 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, Alec SOTH attended hundreds of meetings, dances, festivals and communal gatherings in search of human interaction in an era of virtual social networks.
Content
For the photo volume 'Songbook', Alec 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." (publisher's note, © Mack Books, 2015)
About US-American Magnum photographer, Alec SOTH (b.1969)
Photo books by and about the work of photographer Alec SOTH
- Format
- 3rd print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28,5 x 27,5 x 2 cm., 144 pp., 77 tritone b/w ills., text language: English