Advice for young artists / Alec Soth.

Main entry:

Soth, Alec, 1969- photographer.

Title & Author:

Advice for young artists / Alec Soth.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

[London, United Kingdom] : MACK, [2024]
©2024

Description:

72 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm + 1 sheet (2 unnumbered pages ; 27 x 21 cm)

Notes:
Chiefly illustrated.
Inserted in book: yellow printed sheet with a "self-interview" by the photographer.

Summary:

"Between 2022 and 2024, Alec Soth visited twenty-five undergraduate art programmes across the United States. Advice for Young Artists comprises work he made there. Its title--perhaps like the visits themselves--is misleading: rather than wisdom or guidance, Soth offers an angular and unresolved reflection on artmaking at different stages of life and the relations of photography, time, and ageing. The photographs here range from formal studies evocative of the classroom to more unruly works of self-expression. Ambiguous stagings, found forms, and lyrical portraits are interspersed with gnomic quotes and unfinished credos scrawled on Post-its. Among the students, Soth himself appears at intervals, an uncertain sage in their midst. Inspired by Walker Evans's late Polaroids, this latest body of work reveals a new expansion of Soth's practice and a new vantage, twenty years on from the publication of his first book. Recalling the conceit of Broken Manual, it uses an instructional format as a spurious cover for introspection and provocation. As much as a study of the experience of the young artist, this is a reckoning with the prospect of becoming an old one"--https://mackbooks.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/advice-for-young-artists-alec-soth, accessed August 26, 2024.

ISBN:

1915743761
9781915743763

Subject:

Soth, Alec, 1969-
Photography, Artistic.
Art students United States History 21st century Portraits.
Artists United States History 21st century Portraits.
Art, American 21st century Pictorial works.
Art students United States 21st century Portraits.
Artists United States 21st century.
Art, American 21st century.
Photographie artistique.
Étudiants en art États-Unis 21e siècle Portraits.
Artistes États-Unis 21e siècle.
Art américain 21e siècle.
Étudiants en art États-Unis Histoire 21e siècle Portraits.
Artistes États-Unis Histoire 21e siècle Portraits.
Art américain 21e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
art photography.

Form/genre:

photobooks.
Photobooks.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Alec Soth : advice for young artists

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320550
Call No.: 320550
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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