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Alec Soth
(American photographer, born 1969)
American, b. 1969
In 2001, Alec Soth, along with Beth Dow (b. 1965) and Chris Faust (b. 1955) were invited to photographically interpret the Carleton campus. The resulting project, titled Vantage Points: Campus as Place, comprised 12 images by each photographer presented in a winter 2002 exhibition, published in a catalogue, and offered to the Carleton community through the 2002 calendar and a Voice spread. Soth’s glowing color photographs of Carleton capture incidents of visual magic and suggest moments snatched from the on-going narrative of campus life. The invitation to participate in Vantage Points prompted Soth to reminisce about his own student experience. “I remember the excitement, the feeling of possibility. To tell the truth, I miss that feeling.” Windows drive each composition – as the viewer shares the photographer’s vantage point within selected college interiors looking outward. In 2001 Soth was poised on the brink of extraordinary professional success. Soth Employed as a photographer as a digital imaging specialist at the MIA and teaching at the MCAD, Soth struggled to find time for his creative work. But in 2004 he was nominated as a member of Magnum, a premier agency for photo journalists (2006 became an Associate). A McKnight Foundation-supported photographic trip down the Mississippi resulted in Sleeping by the Mississippi, a handsome Steidl publication and thriving market for his photographic prints. Following projects include NIAGARA (2006), and The Last Days of W (2008). This fall (2010), the Minneapolis native is the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the Walker Art Center. Soth creates community around photography and photo books through his blog, Little Brown Mushroom, which is also a publishing enterprise.