Quotes by Alec Soth

Alec Soth

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It’s suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It’s as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

Photography

Way

Every once in a while I have this revelation like, “Wow, a hundred years ago the world wasn’t black and white.” It was in color. Photographed in a certain way, people look from another time. We are just not used to seeing ourselves in that context. Something that’s fascinating about photography is you can isolate a moment, tear it out of its context, and see it afresh. Another realization is that, “Wow, there’s a big world out there, and people are still doing all sorts of the things that they used to do.” We don’t just live in iPad land.

Black And White

People

Photography

For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

Needs

Technology

Typewriters

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

Discovery

Findings

Photography

I admire photographers that don’t need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There’s a quality of wanderlust for sure in my work, but I need a destination.

Photographer

Photography

Quality

I always say that photography’s closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

Cousin

Imagination

Photography

I’m like the annoying guy in the street.

Annoying

Guy

Streets

I’ve never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.

Mystery

People

Stranger

In assembling this group of portraits of women, I’m aware that I’m treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to be distrustful of men’s depictions of women. I remember seeing Garry Winogrand’s book Women Are Beautiful in the school library and being shocked that it hadn’t been defaced for its blatant objectification of women. But looking back, maybe I was too harsh. Whether one photographs men or women, it is always a form of objectification. Whatever you say about Winogrand, his depiction was honest.

Beautiful

Book

School

It’s a weird combination that makes a great picture. It’s a complete mystery to me.

Combination

Mystery

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Annoying

Beautiful

Black And White

Book

Combination

Cousin

Daughter

Different

Discovery

Findings

Growing

Growth

Guy

Imagination

Journalism

Lonely

Memories

Mirrors

Mystery

Needs

People

Photographer

Photography

Quality

Real

Real Life

Reflection

School

Stranger

Streets

Technology

Truth Is

Typewriters

Want

Way

World

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Quotes by Alec Soth

Alec Soth

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It’s suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It’s as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

I admire photographers that don’t need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There’s a quality of wanderlust for sure in my work, but I need a destination.

I always say that photography’s closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

I’m like the annoying guy in the street.

I’ve never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.

It’s a weird combination that makes a great picture. It’s a complete mystery to me.

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