View Full Version : Alec Soth Interviews


david b
05-02-2008, 11:09 AM
Alec Soth is one of my favorite photographers, so I pulled together three of his video interviews.

All three are really good and in the last one he talks about why he uses film cameras, specifically an 8x10.

Altogether, I think there are 10 minutes here.

They are posted on my blog.

billschwab
05-02-2008, 11:54 AM
David... Do people know where your BLOG is? Link-up Bud! :)

pesphoto
05-02-2008, 12:13 PM
see where it says "my blog" ..... ?

david b
05-02-2008, 03:54 PM
http://davidbram.blogspot.com/

Marco B
05-02-2008, 04:20 PM
Nice, thanks David for posting the link and all the work that went into this.

Amund
05-02-2008, 05:18 PM
Thanks a lot, Alec Soth is on my favorite list too.

lns
05-02-2008, 06:17 PM
I saw work from his Paris/Minnesota project on Monday at ArtChicago. The book was very fine, of course. But the prints were absolutely stunning. -Laura

mark
05-02-2008, 06:57 PM
I had no idea who he was and his website is blocked as explicit. So is Jim Galli's. I will have to go home and look, with the lights off and after the kids go to bed, just like I have to do with Jim's.:) Don't ya just love firewalls.

So, not wanting to be the completely uncultured heathen I went looking for other ways to see images. I found some neat stuff but this article is great. It is from January of this year
http://articles.citypages.com/2008-01-23/feature/freeze-frame/full/

I love this paragragh
"In the back seat of the van was his constant companion: a complex and fussy R.H. Phillips and Sons 8x10 Compact camera, a relic of the late '80s that opens like an accordion. The contraption sits on a tripod strong enough to hold a small child; the negatives cost $20 a piece and capture incredible detail and color."

Oh my god the LATE '80s. :D:D:D:D:D

Thanks for bringing him to my attention David

david b
05-02-2008, 07:42 PM
Alec is such a great photographer and seems like a really genuine guy.

I love his work.

Glad you guys are diggin' this.

SuzanneR
05-02-2008, 07:47 PM
His work is excellent, and for awhile he had a great blog, but he stopped posting, and now it seems to have vanished into the netherworld. Thanks for posting the interviews, David. Good to have them all in one place!!


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