Chapel, from Vantage Points / Campus as Place
2001
21st century
30 x 26 in. (762 x 660 mm)
Alec Soth,
American,
b. 1969
Object Type:
Photographs
Creation Place:
North America, United States
Medium and Support:
Color coupler print on paper
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection
Accession Number:
2003.078.26
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.
Each day at about noon, a student musician plays the chimes which broadcast from Skinner Chapel tower.