Looking for Love, 1996.
Photographs by Alec Soth.
Kominek Books, 2012.
56 pp., 43 duotone illustrations,
8x8½”.
Publisher’s Description:
Alec Soth‘s photobook ‘Looking for Love, 1996’, including his photo series of the same name, looks back to the time of the beginning, the time when everything is still open and exciting, when everything gently falls into place. It‘s the phase of the beginning, that forms the basis not only of a new love, but also of each new photographic project. It‘s a book about searching, about the curious and intuitive approach to people and their stories. About falling in love to a medium that opens insights to worlds that would otherwise stay hidden – intensive and haunting like an interminable night at the bar.
(via photo-eye Bookstore | Alec Soth: Looking for Love, 1996 | photobook)
• 13 September 2012
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Lonely Boy Mag
Just Purchased!
Lonely Boy Mag. (No. A-1: Alec Soth’s Midwestern Exotica)
Edition of 1000
Designed by Alec Soth
Publication date, March, 2011
64 pages, 5.4×8.5in, color offset, staple-bound
The first in a series of men’s magazines, this issue features poetry, erotic text, pictures of ex-girlfriends and a photo-story by Soth.
• 6 April 2011
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jennilee:
julia at urban outfitters sent me their beautiful hardcover ‘o christmas tree’ holiday 2010 preview book, shot by alec soth
• 26 October 2010
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Carmen, Alec and Gus Soth ; The Brighton Bunny
oneyearofbooks:
Published by Little Brown Mushroom, bought during the Brighton Biennial £5
Lucien enjoyed and pictured it (with my vintage red Konica Pop)
Family fairy tale. The books from the exhibition were really not good, except this one.
• 17 October 2010
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Steidl
Broken Manual - Special Edition
by Alec Soth, Lester B. Morrison
Steidl
- Limited to 300 copies
Price will increase after the sale of the first 50 copies
- Softcover housed in its own unique book-safe, with a signed and numbered Soth photograph
- Steidl
- Publication date: October 2010
Publisher’s Description:
Created over four years (2006-10), Alec Soth’s newest book represents a significant departure from his three previous Steidl publications. Entitled Broken Manual, Soth investigates the places in which people retreat to escape civilization. Soth photographs monks, survivalist, hermits and runaways, but this isn’t a conventional documentary book on life “off the grid.” Instead, working with the writer Lester B. Morrison, the authors have created an underground instruction manual for those looking to escape their lives.
It is common for artists to follow up the publication of their books with ‘Special Editions.’ But in the case of Broken Manual, this edition is being presented first. Made in an edition of 300, Soth calls this the ‘Ideal Edition’ of Broken Manual. Each copy of this edition is housed inside of another, one-of-a-kind book. These signed and numbered ‘shell’ books are unique and cut by hand. Inside the shell, there is also a small booklet entitled ‘Liberation Billfold Manifest’ and an 8x10” print signed and numbered by Alec Soth and Lester B. Morrison.
• 7 September 2010
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Dismantling My Career: A Conversation with Alec Soth -> Bartholomew Ryan for the Walker Art Center
photoreads:
“People always say to me, “Your pictures are so lonely.” I think if you look at the vast majority of the books [I’ve collected here in the studio] with pictures, they’re lonely. Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.” (…)
• 31 August 2010
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“i heart photograph: Some Questions - Alec Soth”
lapuravidagallery:
What are your opinions on the idea of the Internet as replacement for critique space? As replacement for museum or gallery? Jpeg as replacement for physical art object? Tumblr as replacement for curation?
Fine for others, whatever, but I still like physical stuff. The pleasure of being a photographer is having an excuse to wander out into the world. I’ve come to think of the process as being like web-surfing in the real world. And I still like to make physical stuff at the end of this process like books and prints. But I have no problem with people choosing to experience the world in virtual space. (Did I mention I’m old).
via i heart photograph: Some Questions - Alec Soth
• 27 August 2010
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Nazraeli Press, Books on the Fine and Applied Arts
Alec Soth
NEW ONE PICTURE BOOK: One Mississippi
ISBN: 978-1-59005-281-5
Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4, 16 pages, 11 four-color plates, 1 original print
• 14 May 2010
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