Although I did not like a lot of the things that Soth spoke about, like how photography is mostly luck and how the common housewife is just as likely to get that groundbreaking photograph as a skilled photographer, I do love his style. More as, maybe I just appreciate the method behind gaining these images. I know that once I graduate I would love to be able to freely travel, taking images of people that I do know while in places that I have never been. That is exactly what I strive to do.
Like myself, Soth was painfully shy throughout college and he decided to go and break that barrier by going to parks and asking random people to take let him take their picture. Because of this act, he was able to find that he was making a connection and photographing certain types of people
I did not realize that I had already viewed Alec Soth’s artwork previously until he got to his series “Sleeping by the Mississippi.” I really enjoyed these images because they seemed empty, yet full, at the same time. He went deeper then just the image though. He would ask people to write down their dreams before he would take their picture. Originally he planned on using these dreams as another piece but he never ended up doing it. Being able to travel freely as he was is what made his own personal dream come true.
Website:
http://www.alecsoth.com/
Interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7PpxTHqYWI
Gallery:
Http://www.montserrat.edu/galleries/montserrat/index.php?status=upcoming
