Main entry:

Soth, Alec, 1969- photographer.

Title & Author:

A pound of pictures / Alec Soth ; text editor Louis Rogers.

Edition:

First edition, special edition.

Publication:

[London] : MACK, [2022]
©2022

Description:

65 numbered leaves of plates, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : chiefly color illustrations, color portraits ; 26 x 31 cm + 5 photographs (1 7 x 10 ; 2 9 x 13 ; 2 10 x 15 cm) + 1 print (21 x 26 cm)

Notes:
Limited special edition of 300 signed and numbered copies.
Plates printed on rectos, except plate 2 on verso of plate 1. Plate 66 not numbered.
Includes "five randomised replica vernacular photographs"--Publisher's website.
Accompanied by 1 color photographic print, signed and numbered on the verso.
Issued in cardboard clamshell case printed on cover: Photos.

Summary:

"A Pound of Pictures is a stream-of-consciousness celebration of the photographic medium, bringing together an entirely new collection of work by Alec Soth made between 2018 and 2021. Depicting a sprawling array of subjects -- from Buddhist statues and birdwatchers to sun-seekers and busts of Abe Lincoln -- this book reflects on the photographic desire to pin down and crystallise experience, especially as it is represented and recollected by printed images. Throughout this eclectic sequence are the recurring presences of iconography, of souvenirs and mementos, and of the image-makers that surround us day to day. Forming a winding, ruminative road trip, Soth's photographs are followed by his own notes and reflections in an extended afterword. 'If the pictures in this book are about anything other than their shimmering surfaces,' he writes, 'they are about the process of their own making. They are about going into the ecstatically specific world and creating a connection between the ephemeral (light, time) and the physical (eyeballs, film).' Each book contains five randomised replica vernacular photographs loosely inserted within the pages." -- Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9781913620110 (hardcover)
1913620115 (hardcover)

Subject:

Soth, Alec, 1969-
Photography, Artistic 21st century.
Color photography United States.
Photography, Artistic.
Photographie artistique.
Photographie en couleurs États-Unis.
Photographie artistique 21e siècle.
art photography.
Color photography
United States Pictorial works.
United States

Form/genre:

photobooks.
Photobooks
Pictorial works
Livres de photographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 315660
Call No.: 315660
Copy: 1
Status: Available