From Here to There

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Alec Soth is an American photographer known for his "large-scale American projects" featuring the American Midwest. His photography has a cinematic feel with elements of folklore that hint at a story behind the image. The New York Times art critic Hilarie M. Sheets wrote that he has made a "photographic career out of finding chemistry with strangers" and takes images of "loners and dreamers". His work tends to focus on the "off-beat, hauntingly banal images of modern America" according to The Guardian art critic Hannah Booth. His work has been compared to photographers such as Walker Evans and Stephen Shore.

Responsible for numerous photographs exhibited in the finest museums around the world, Alec Soth will relate his ‘Great Journey’, in which, at the age of 20, he undertook a five-year voyage along the Mississippi River, which culminated in his first book Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004).

Organizers:

Leica Camera Russia (www.leica-camera.ru)
Magnum Photos (www.magnumphotos.com)
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture (www.garageccc.com)

Alec Soth is a photographer and member of Magnum Photos. His photographs are featured in many public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. His first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, published in 2004, enjoyed wide critical acclaim. Since then, Soth has released three major works, NIAGARA (2006), Fashion Magazine (2007) and Dog Days, Bogota (2007).