I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
You can photograph anything. You can be inside, outside, doesn't matter, you're controlling the light. It gives you great flexibility. That was… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
In a world where the 2 billionth photograph has been uploaded to Flickr, which looks like an Eggleston picture! How do you… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I've never been the type of photographer to live with people I photograph. You know, shoot heroin with them, that kind of… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
Every once in a while I have this revelation like, "Wow, a hundred years ago the world wasn't black and white." It… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing? — Alec Soth Copy Share
[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave… — Alec Soth Copy Share
I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to… — Alec Soth Copy Share
I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs online. It's… — Alec Soth Copy Share
I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for sure in… — Alec Soth Copy Share
Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now… — Alec Soth Copy Share
In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to… — Alec Soth Copy Share
Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even… — Alec Soth Copy Share
Every once in a while I have this revelation like, "Wow, a hundred years ago the world wasn't black and white." It was in… — Alec Soth Copy Share
Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer. — Alec Soth Copy Share
In a world where the 2 billionth photograph has been uploaded to Flickr, which looks like an Eggleston picture! How do you deal with… — Alec Soth Copy Share
You can photograph anything. You can be inside, outside, doesn't matter, you're controlling the light. It gives you great flexibility. That was a primary… — Alec Soth Copy Share
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