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ASX.TV: Alec Soth – “In Conversation with Martin Parr” (2010)
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 Originally posted on the New York Times Opinionator page: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/looking-for-luck-in-south-texas/ ASX CHANNEL: ALEC SOTH … ASX.TV: Alec Soth – “Looking for Luck in South Texas” (2010)  Les photographies d’Alec Soth puisent leur racine dans la tradition de Walker Evans, Robert Frank et Stephen Shore. Sa représentation du quotidien fait apparaître la complexité d’une société américaine construite sur des idéaux d’indépendance, de liberté, de spiritualité, et d’individualisme. …  …enting is extremely dull and journalism…I’m a very bad reporter and a photojournalist. Capa told me when I had an exhibition at the museum of Modern Art in ’46, he said no, he’d be very careful. You mustn’t have a label of a surrealist photographer. All my training was surrealism. I still feel very close to a surrealist but he said if you were labelled as a surrealist photographer you won’t go any further you won’t have an assignment … HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson” (1973)  …. It just simply means that I am able to think better. Let’s put it that way. AC: I read that you don’t really consider yourself an environmental portrait photographer, is that true? AN: No, I think basically I am. But I hate labels. That label was placed on me by an early writer who did an article on me calling me the father of the environmental portrait, which seems to have stuck. But the Stravinsky is not an environmental portrait, it’s really…  Combining historical and contemporary work, the exhibition brings together a number of prominent American photographers including Walker Evans, William Eggleston, William Christenberry, Carrie Mae Weems, Alec Soth and Susan Lipper. These artists have, in various ways, engaged with the physical and psychological landscape of the American South and its place in our psyche. By striving to represent the ‘’Mind of the South” in their work they oft… ASX.TV: “Myths, Manners and Memory : Photographers of the American South” (2011)  …unes of Depression times, but your photographs are not critical. I find them more of a glorification—glorification of the plain and simple reality. W.E.: I’m pleased to hear you say that, because I didn’t like the label that I unconsciously earned of being a social protest artist. I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring d… INTERVIEW: Walker Evans – “The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable” (1974)  …y identifies a realist use of the medium, which could be seen to open up a much more complex and rich understanding of photography than the limiting implications of terms like formalism, which tend to get used pejoratively to label your writings and contribution to the history of photography. JS: When critics don’t know what to say about a good photographer who uses the camera simply and directly they say that the photographer uses the came… INTERVIEW: “Eyes Wide Open: Interview with John Szarkowski” (2006) | ||||||||||||||
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