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Alec
Soth:
Advantage Inn, from the series NIAGARA, 2005
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Description
Title:
Advantage Inn, from the series NIAGARA, 2005
Style: Contemporary
Period: 2000s
Medium: Photographs, Chromogenic Print (C-print)
Year: 2005
Size: height - 11 in, width - 14 in, depth - 0 in
cm
Markings: signed, signed, numbered, and dated on print verso
Edition: edition of 35
Estimate: from US$1,200 to US$1,400
Seller's Description:
Alec Soth, Advantage Inn, from the series NIAGARA, 2005. Chromogenic print, sheet: 11 x 14 inches, 27.94 x 35.56 cm; image: 8 x 10 inches, 20.32 x 25.4 cm. Edition of 35. Signed, numbered, and dated on print. verso. Unframed.
Advantage Inn, 2005, is one of the images from Alec Soth’s most recent photographic project, NIAGARA. The photographs from this series explore the region surrounding America’s most celebrated waterfall and traditional honeymoon destination. Driving around in a van with quotes from Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and lists of subjects and items he wanted to find taped to his steering wheel, Soth captured motels, couples, wedding gowns, nudes, love letters and other images that focus on the myths of romance that envelop the area. The images present a sobering, awkwardly beautiful, heartbreaking venture into the realities of love and “happily ever after.”
Alec Soth records American life and landscape in the powerful photographic tradition begun in the mid 19th century and extending to the work of such photographers as Walker Evans, Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Joel Sternfeld, who was Soth’s teacher. Through his 8 x 10 camera lens, Soth captures the extraordinary by exposing and utilizing the vernacular of the ordinary.
Soth was born in 1969 in Minnesota and is currently based in Minneapolis. The recipient of major fellowships from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations, Soth was awarded the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.
Soth's photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials. Soth has also photographed for The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, LIFE and The New Yorker. His first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published in 2004, and his second, NIAGARA, was published Spring 2006. Soth is represented in New York by Gagosian Gallery.
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- History & Provenance
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Publications:
Soth, Alec, 1969- . Sleeping by the Mississippi / photographs by Alec Soth. (orig pub c2003). 3rd ed. Göttingen : Steidl, 2008.
Soth, Alec, 1969- . Alec Soth: The Last Days of W / Alec Soth, Lester B. Morrison. Alec Soth / Little Brown Mushroom, 2008.
Soth, Alec, 1969- . Fashion magazine : paris-minnesota / by Alec Soth (Photographer), Karl Lagerfeld, Marta Gili, Franca Sozzani, Carla Ducci, Pamela Golbin, Erik Olson. New York : Magnum Photos, DAP, 2007.
Soth, Alec, 1969- . Niagara / Alec Soth ; essays by Philip Brookman and Richard Ford. Göttingen : Steidl, 2006.
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