Alec Soth

Alec Soth (born 1969, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States) is an American photographer, based in Minneapolis, who makes "large-scale American projects" featuring the midwestern United States. His photography has a cinematic feel with elements of folklore that hint at a story behind the image. New York Times art critic Hilarie M. Sheets wrote that he has made a "photographic career out of finding chemistry with strangers" and photographs "loners and dreamers". His work tends to focus on the "off-beat, hauntingly banal images of modern America" according to The Guardian art critic Hannah Booth. His work has been compared to that of Walker Evans and Stephen Shore. He is a member of Magnum Photos.

Soth has had various books of his work published by major publishers as well as self-published through his own Little Brown Mushroom. His major publications are Sleeping by the Mississippi, Niagara, Broken Manual and Songbook. He has received fellowships from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations and was the recipient of the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His photographs are in major public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Walker Art Center. His work has been exhibited widely including as part of the 2004 Whitney Biennial and a major solo exhibition at Media Space in London in 2015.

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Creativity in Context: An Interview with Photographer Alec Soth

New York Observer 19 Mar 2025
Last week, the photographer Alec Soth opened “Advice for Young Artists,” his fifth exhibition with Sean Kelly gallery and the result of Soth’s visits to twenty-five undergraduate art programs between 2022 and 2024.
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Tashkent’s CCA Aims to Anchor a New Era in Uzbek Contemporary Art

New York Observer 19 Mar 2025
CCA residencies are located in the historic Tashkent mahallas—Uzbek for “neighborhoods”—of Namuna and Khast Imom, in newly restored heritage sites ... Sign Up ... You can opt out anytime ... Creativity in Context – An Interview with Photographer Alec Soth.
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