Interview w/ Alec Soth

[martin s]

There's an interesting interview on AmericanSuburbX with Alex Soth, check it out here: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/05/interview-conversation-with-alec-soth.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29

AS: You can feel struggle with what to do in this world with billions of pictures. I think there's a strain of photography going for something more physical, so you're seeing a lot of cut up, photograms, one of a kind objects. I'm naturally a sucker for that, because I like that stuff, but I don't think that's a long term answer, it's just a side effect. I think there is a hunger merging these pictures, how to tell stories, how to use new technology online to do it. This is more in photo journalism circles, but I see it in fine art photography too, aching to get beyond the single picture. I see these two things happening. If I were 20 years old, I think I'd be on the cusp, like being a photographer in 1942. An incredible revolution is taking place, it's very exciting, and no one's figured out how it's going to work, but something's big is going to happen.

Originally via Clusterflock.

martin

 

[Roger Vadim]

great read, thanks for pointing out!

 

[gns]

americansuburbx...One of my favorite sites on the web. He has accumulated a huge amount of material, and I've spent many hours there.

Gary

 

[Hamel]

Thank you for posting the interview. I've never been to that site before and now I can't get away from it!

 

[aizan]

you could say photography is having a crisis, sort of like the one painting went through when photography became widespread. dun dun dunnnnn...