I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating Special Edition
Limited edition of 300 copies, divided into 2 sets of 150, each comprising a signed first edition of the book housed in a slipcase with one of two c-type prints [signed and numbered 1/150 - 150/150].
"There are other words for Soth's strategy āĀ poetry, for one, orĀ punk. Nothing is harder than making it look easy."Ā ā David O'Neill
Taking its name from a line in the Wallace Stevensā poem āThe Gray Room,ā Alec Sothās latest book is a lyrical exploration of the limitations of photographic representation. While these large-format color photographs are made all over the world, they arenāt about any particular place or population.Ā By a process of intimate and often extended engagement, Sothās portraits and images of his subjectās surroundings involve an enquiry into the extent to which a photographic likeness can depict more than the outer surface of an individual, and perhaps even plumb the depths of something unknowable about both the sitter and the photographer.
āAfter the publication of my last book about social life in America,Ā Songbook, and a retrospective of my four, large scale American projects,Ā Gathered Leaves, I went through a long period of rethinking my creative process. For over a year I stoppedĀ travelingĀ and photographing people. I barely took any pictures at all.
When I returned to photography, I wanted to strip the medium down to its primary elements. Rather than trying to make some sort of epic narrative about America, I wanted to simply spend time looking at other people and, hopefully, briefly glimpse their interior life.
In order to try and access these lives, I made all of the photographs in interior spaces. While these rooms often exist in far-flung places, itās only to emphasize that these pictures arenāt about any place in particular. Whether a picture is made in Odessa or Minneapolis, my goal was the same: to simply spend time in the presence of another beating heart.ā ā Alec Soth
Coincides with four solo exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Berlin.Ā Ā
Includes interview with Alec Soth by Hanya Yanagihara
Watch Alec Soth's Bookshelf TourĀ here.Ā
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Limited edition of 300 copies, divided into 2 sets of 150, each comprising a signed first edition of the book housed in a slipcase with one of two c-type prints [signed and numbered 1/150 - 150/150].
"There are other words for Soth's strategy āĀ poetry, for one, orĀ punk. Nothing is harder than making it look easy."Ā ā David O'Neill
Taking its name from a line in the Wallace Stevensā poem āThe Gray Room,ā Alec Sothās latest book is a lyrical exploration of the limitations of photographic representation. While these large-format color photographs are made all over the world, they arenāt about any particular place or population.Ā By a process of intimate and often extended engagement, Sothās portraits and images of his subjectās surroundings involve an enquiry into the extent to which a photographic likeness can depict more than the outer surface of an individual, and perhaps even plumb the depths of something unknowable about both the sitter and the photographer.
āAfter the publication of my last book about social life in America,Ā Songbook, and a retrospective of my four, large scale American projects,Ā Gathered Leaves, I went through a long period of rethinking my creative process. For over a year I stoppedĀ travelingĀ and photographing people. I barely took any pictures at all.
When I returned to photography, I wanted to strip the medium down to its primary elements. Rather than trying to make some sort of epic narrative about America, I wanted to simply spend time looking at other people and, hopefully, briefly glimpse their interior life.
In order to try and access these lives, I made all of the photographs in interior spaces. While these rooms often exist in far-flung places, itās only to emphasize that these pictures arenāt about any place in particular. Whether a picture is made in Odessa or Minneapolis, my goal was the same: to simply spend time in the presence of another beating heart.ā ā Alec Soth
Coincides with four solo exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Berlin.Ā Ā
Includes interview with Alec Soth by Hanya Yanagihara
Watch Alec Soth's Bookshelf TourĀ here.Ā
