Alec Soth travels the country with, predominantly, an 8x10 view camera. He generally shoots in color. His compositions are tight but not very busy. When I look at a Soth, I don't need to guess what I'm supposed to see.
In his series Niagra, Soth looks for love in, apparently, the right place: the east coast's wedding capital. Problem is, the love he finds seems stunted, scared, depressed. Love seems to be a promise not of lifelong bliss, but difficulty and heartbreak. I suppose, though, that the interesting question he asks is not can we find true, unadulterated, difficulty free love, but why do we deserve perfection when perfection is an artifice anyhow.
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDelete