Photographer Alec Soth at LDSOA

In 2008, Minnesota-based photographer Alec Soth started his own publishing company, Little Brown Mushroom, and began releasing monographs of his images. On Tuesday Nov. 27 at 5:30 p.m., Soth will speak about his work at the Lamar Dodd Schol of Art:

The lecture, part of the ongoing Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.

 

"Alec Soth is a photographic storyteller, recognized for his cinematic images of the American Midwest," said Michael Marshall, associate professor and photography area chair in the school of art. "Working with a large format camera, his photographs build a narrative of the heart of the country, engaging the banal and off-the-beaten-path places and people."

Soth's photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials. In 2008, a large survey exhibition of Soth's work was exhibited at Jeu de Paume in Paris and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. In 2010, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minn., produced a large survey exhibition of Soth's work titled "From Here To There."

Image: Charles, Vasa, Minnesota, 2002, from the series Sleeping By The Mississippi, by Alec Soth.