Soth, Alec
Advice for Young Artists
- ISBN 13:
- 9781915743763
- author:
- Soth, Alec
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- MACK
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 72
- Dimensions:
- 23.4 x 18.8 x 1 centimetres (0.3
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Photography, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 2 working days
Description
Alec Soth's Advice for Young Artists is a collection of photographs made during visits to twenty-five undergraduate art programmes across the United States between 2022 and 2024. The work is a reflection on artmaking at different stages of life and the relations of photography, time, and ageing. The photographs range from formal studies to more unruly works of self-expression, featuring ambiguous stagings, found forms, and lyrical portraits. Interspersed with these images are gnomic quotes and unfinished credos scrawled on Post-its. Soth's own presence is also felt throughout the work, appearing at intervals as an uncertain sage among the students. This latest body of work reveals a new expansion of Soth's practice and a new vantage point, twenty years on from the publication of his first book. It uses an instructional format as a spurious cover for introspection and provocation, making it a study of the experience of the young artist as much as a reckoning with the prospect of becoming an old one.
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