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 my work, but I need a destination. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing? — 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 you leave… — 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 viewer to… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
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 great, they're available, you can see lots of different work, but it's a limited experience of the form. A book is like an album. You don't have to have a million dollars to be able to… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 be distrustful of men's depictions of women. I remember seeing Garry Winogrand's book Women Are Beautiful in the school library and being shocked that it hadn't been defaced for its blatant objectification of women. But looking… — 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 Image
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 color. Photographed in a certain way, people look from another time. We are just not used to seeing ourselves in that context. Something that's fascinating about photography is you can isolate a moment, tear it out… — Alec Soth Copy Share
For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
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