1. Alec Soth's technique is driven by curiosity, and wanting to see something new. He uses large format cameras, and also medium square format cameras. He uses his 8''x10'' camera as a tool to shape the experience he has with his subjects. The old fashioned camera takes awhile to set up, so he says it gives him a chance to study the subject, and also for his subject to relax.
2. The concept that Alec Soth tries to convey in his photography is the difference between rhetoric and reality. The idea of America and the actual lived experience through its people. Alec Soth focuses on individual instead of a community. He shows American photography in a way of describing hopelessness instead of hope.
3. My thoughts on the images I chose for this particular artist is that I can get a sense of passing time. The passing of time and nothing seems to change-- like a slower pace of life. The artist wants to convey hopelessness, and I think he is successful in doing so with these images I feel saying that the passing of time can go along with that theme. When living a slower pace of life nothing much changes, and nothing new happens; which is my definition of hopelessness because you know what to expect. These three photos make me feel some type of empathy, and sadness like this is someones reality.
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