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Reading view

Do you want to know the story behind the picture?

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Using Michael Schmidt's book "Waffenruhe" (1987) as an example, Alec Soth discusses the ways in which stories and biographical information can alter our reading of photobooks. Masahisa Fukase's book "Ravens" (1986) is also briefly discussed.

Chance Encounters

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Alec Soth discusses books that speak to Haruki Murakami's words when he wrote “Chance encounters are what keep us going."

18 by Shinro Ohtake (2002
Douglas Huebler (2002)
Narrative Art by Peter Hutchinson (1994)
Thrown Rope by Peter Hutchinson (2006)
I Walk Toward The Sun Which Is Always Going Down by Alan Huck (2019)

On Filmmaking and Photography #2 (sequencing)

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Alec Soth discusses sequencing in filmmaking and still photography using the following books:

Der Film Im Westen nichts Neues in Bildern (1931)
A Way of Seeing by Helen Levitt (1965)
Film-Photos Wie Noch Nie (1929)
The Blood of a Poet by Jean Cocteau (1949)
Close-Cropped Tales by John Baldessari (1981)
A Fine Day by Kishin Shinoyama (1975)

Ask Alec Soth anything: a TikTok compilation

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00:11 On (not) Explaining Your Work
00:56 Exhibition planning
02:03 Photo project tip
02:48 Imagined audience
04:41 Choosing the form for a project
05:55 Niagara Love Letters
07:05 Failure
08:00 Abandoned Project
10:39 Coming up with titles
11:32 Allowing a project to change
13:15 On Paranoia
14:00 Photowork burnout
15:23 The LBM Dispatch
16:57 Considering the viewer
17:44 Advice to your teenage self
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