Soth, Alec
Songbook
- ISBN 13:
- 9781910164020
- author:
- Soth, Alec
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Mack
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Pages:
- 144
- Dimensions:
- 27.3 x 28.5 x 1 centimetres (1.0
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Photography, Collections,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 2 working days
Description
Songbook by Alec Soth is a poignant collection of photographs that capture the longing for human connection in America. In 2012-2014, photographer Alec Soth embarked on a journey across the country, attending hundreds of meetings, dances, festivals and communal gatherings to find people who were not hiding behind virtual social networks. He worked on his self-published newspaper, The LBM Dispatch, as well as for major publications like the New York Times. The resulting photographs are fragmentary, funny and sad, revealing a tension between American individualism and the desire to be united. Soth has stripped these pictures of their news context to highlight the root of this longing.