Study Visit: Alec Soth
Join OCA tutor Helen Warburton at Media Space in the Science Museum, London on Saturday 23 January. We’ll be exploring and questioning the work and presentation of renowned Magnum photographer, Alec Soth’s major new exhibition. This study visit will also feature a tour and Q+A with the exhibition’s curator and Science Museum’s Head of Photography, Kate Bush.
You must book before Wednesday 6 January to reserve your place. Please email enquiries@oca.ac.uk
“Alec Soth is widely considered to be one of the world’s foremost documentary photographers. Recently described by the Telegraph as the ‘greatest living photographer of America’s social and geographical landscape’, Soth is admired for his experimentation across exhibition, book, magazine and digital forms.
Like many great photographers and writers from the American canon – such as Robert Frank, Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld – Soth takes the open road as his subject, but brings to it his own unique and modern twist.
Through haunting, intimate portraits, desolate landscapes and wide open wildernesses, his work captures a profound sense of what it is to be human. Tenderness, joy, disappointment, fear or pride – his striking portraits capture the rawness of human emotion and the tension between our conflicting desires for individualism and community.
This exhibition presents his four signature series – Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), Niagara (2006), Broken Manual (2010) and the most recent, Songbook (2014) – and highlights his remarkable career and distinctive vision.”
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not a study day to miss in my view … a few URLs from my previous study of Soth follow …
an extended interview with Soth
https://wordpress.com/post/amanolandscape.wordpress.com/825
Soth talking in Bristol
https://wordpress.com/post/amanolandscape.wordpress.com/1165
visit to The Science Museum exhibition
https://wordpress.com/post/amanostudy.wordpress.com/7601
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Amano
Very much looking forward to this event. Amani, thanks for your links, helpful background study in advance of the visit.
Just seen an advert for the photography show at the NEC Birmingham and Alex Soth will be giving a talk on the Tuesday, Student Day 22 March – cost to get in free if you are a student, talk £10.
It was a fantastic day – thanks to the OCA for organising and for Helen’s tutoring and the commitment of all the other students . My rather inadequate review is here: https://gmocarosemier.wordpress.com/2016/02/06/gathered-leaves-by-alec-soth-study-visit-23-1-16/
Superb day, very well organised and prepared.
Glad the study visit went so well. The exhibition moves to Bradford in April
Sorry to miss the study visit but here is my review of the exhibition https://photography515050.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/gathered-leaves-alex-soth/