Emotional Marginalia

[@olenquinn]

It is a good day when there's a new Alec Soth video!

[@6wop]

hey olen

[@olenquinn]

@@6wop hey carlos!

[@matthamon8421]

Love the hat... "Alec Sloth." Thanks so much! Theses mini lectures are such a generous offerings to the community.

[@stinkystealthysloth]

That passage about his daughter really got to me

[@1stormcat]

Alec, thank you so very much for bringing your thoughts to KZbin. I find myself watching your videos more than once an often purchasing the books trying to recreate the sense of wonder you initiated when you take us for a stroll through the books that you showcase. Please continue just as you have been doing, your insights are precious

[@bassmarion]

Wow, that last bit nearly made me cry… Thank you for sharing this !

[@andrea_armbruester]

So, there we have it, we enjoyed it; makes us smile, see you next time! 📫 Thank you, Alec.

[@AlecSothYouTube]

Thanks Andrea

[@Victor47930]

I always try to save his new videos for my quiet Sunday morning coffee ... but I always fail. Please keep them coming. Thanks.

[@taylorervin264]

So happy you are making these video again. Your older videos really helped me through the darkest months of the pandemic.

[@j.t.crijns1398]

Great ramble, again! Glad you started them up again, I enjoy them very much and they really inspire, wonderful!

[@artandscience3863]

Thank you, Alec. I hope you are getting something positive out of producing these videos, because I can assure you we are all gaining from watching them. I appreciate your expertise and generosity.

[@AlecSothYouTube]

Thanks, by giving myself this honework, I end up looking at the books more closely.

[@h99k91]

Always a pleasure to watch, i like the fact that there's no music in your videos, i put my own (very low level) while watching, so that i get a slightly different feeling on the pictures showcased !

[@frankv.9525]

These Alec Soth videos are everything.

[@debelle85]

Wow. Photographs came to my mind that I have long felt an affinity for and not known exactly why. The reasons surfaced. Thank you for sharing these thoughts!

[@trevordorton]

As both a writer and a photographer, I always love your insights into the ways that words and pictures can interact with each other - sometimes positively, sometimes negatively. Thanks for making these videos; it feels like I'm cheating, being able to get these insights for free on KZbin.

[@PatyLavir]

I just wanna say that your work here inspires me a lot. Meaningful as always.

[@vetemix2]

Im so happy for these videos in my life

[@JaneAlynnPhotography]

Thanks, again! So appreciate your videos, Alec.

[@manpreet88372]

I was about to book my flight and opened KZbin on side to play music and saw Mr Alec Soth has posted a new video, all set aside I just watched this video. I cant say enough how beautiful and simple these videos are. Beautifully composed and have so much food for thought, that you have to come back and watch them over again. Thanks Sir, you are inspiration to me and many. Please keep posting these videos and share your knowledge and prospective.

[@mikeboudreaux2964]

This one was really interesting, especially the point about leaving space for the viewer to add their own story.

[@BaronVonSminkleSmert]

Perfect, engaging, warm talk for cold nights. Thank you!

[@guillermosanchez7225]

Great video, thanks! Some more context, with plenty of emotional content: The New York Times review of the 1977 MOMA show of the photographs in Interior America was entitled American Popular Taste Viewed With Rage. Hare is described as being a sort of F.S.A. photographer crossed with a Diane Arbus or a Lisette Model, in rage about the taste of his sitters! This rage is explained as a having a trauma origin going back to boyhood memories of rooms on the Upper Ohio Valley, and the show as documenting the "utter failure" of the Museum of Modern Art to influence American popular taste "after forty years of trying". By the way, he anonymous man asleep in the arm chair is described as indifferent of the photographer.

[@gottanikoncamera]

I love these quiet moments in which you share your books and your thoughts on the photographers and the content. Just thought I should say something to encourage you (selfish of me, I know) to continue. Very much appreciated. Back in the day when I was working in marketing, the company I worked for had a very established set of formats that guided our thinking and being very much a note-taker, I’ve augmented the bullet-pointed formats and explanations with related things as I learned them over the years, all scribbled in whatever free space was available on each page. Your video very much reminds me of that.

[@sevindjnurkiyazova3475]

Thank you for the video! This brings so much food for thought and makes me ponder the conventional admonition that a good picture should speak for itself.

[@CopperCanyon100]

This is like a Jungian therapy session. Thank you for blowing my mind open with each episode. This one set my hair on fire. Amazing!

[@susanneh2207]

Your book talks are really one of a kind. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

[@kevinscotton]

Just a comment appreciating your nails. So thankful for all of these presentations, just recieved a signed copy of Sleeping by the Mississippi as a christmas gift :’)

[@AndreaCamiolo]

Wow 😢♥️ the second book was a stab in the heart ! Thank you so much for bringing this content here on KZbin

[@ernestoasturias5220]

As always Alec you make me feal so good listening and watching your videos. Photography is more than taking pictures. Thanks for your insight.

[@feliperestrepo58]

Really interesting reflections on photography, their evocative power, how it activates the process of imagining meaning, and how malleable and open to interpretation photographs are.

[@AndreyPermitin]

Thank you for this video, wonderful!

[@ronhester597]

Thanks, Alec. Fascinating and moving…

[@katyaspiegel3081]

Thank you so much for sharing this with us! Alec, please keep doing it! Yes, there is a delay with having a respond from the audience and those who really appreciate it but your video classes open up like a new world in photography. Thank you!

[@louhautdavid6451]

Leave space for the viewers to bring their own meaning to the picture. Another step into this very useful journey between pictures and words, across your videos. Certainly something to keep in mind. As I'm working on a book, I feel the importance to find the right balance between words and pictures, but also between what's needed to be said and what I'd like to say, egoistically speaking. Sometimes, there is a gap...

[@maya97249]

beautiful and interesting. thank you!

[@pixelnoir]

thank you so much for doing this.

[@RR-bd4bm]

Fantastic insight and very inspirational. Thanks, Alec!

[@juliend4260]

Thanks again Alec for one of your videos! What came to my mind immediately was the notes section in your book Niagara. These little notes and the love letters made a completely different experience to me.

[@AlecSothYouTube]

I'm glad to hear you made that connection Julien!

[@phillipP8848]

Thank you.

[@richarddewit5993]

Absolutely wonderful.

[@marklanning6070]

Yep everyone read that Hare intro, you won’t be prepared. It is without a doubt a different book once you read it. Great video, great pairing of text selections. Now I can’t help but think about what Hare’s father thought but wouldn’t say.

[@fredv1]

Thank you!

[@chopster01]

Another great one!

[@jimdeblock]

I just love the content you put out. Thank You Alec. Keep them coming

[@Mickey-bo6cv]

Amazing! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@majki3144]

Thx for new video!

[@koishes00]

Awesome, thanks for the insight. Love your videos.

[@nickfanzo]

Great videos. Thanks

[@MrGrandsinge]

So inspiring ! Thanks Alec !

[@jonpadrnos3304]

Thank you!!

[@AaronHardinPhoto]

Where can I get one of those sloth hats? That thing is dope.

[@AlecSothYouTube]

Long gone, sadly

[@DRGBTL23]

I like your hat, Alec. Cheers.

[@digeratadesign]

wow. mind blown.

[@davidm5790]

Very interesting. Reminds me of Duane michals and Jim Goldberg’s work

[@scottmcwilliams2378]

My takeaway is how influential questions associated with photos are to their interpretation. What meaning would the prisoner have extracted from the photo if they hadn't been asked to write a story? I'm contemplating how can I offer photos in a way that encourages a deeper experience like in San Quentin - photos as kōans?

[@zacklai414]

hello Alec. I’m a big fan of your work. I’m looking forward to hearing your opinions of your own work!

[@12barko]

HI Alec! thank you for the video as always! can you please share for dl the scans of the Interior America? i would love the have them alongside my own copy of Interior America

[@DanFingermanOctopus]

I have been really enjoying your thoughts to what really comes down to 'context'. I myself don't make any pictures. I have been experimenting with film photography, but that has taken a backseat. I really enjoy these thoughts about context, since I think about that a lot as well when it comes to making music. How the way music is contextualized, really impacts the music. Anyways, thanks a lot for making another one :) Edit: to add to this, do any of you know if there is something like sampling in photography? That is one of my favorite types of context to bring into music.

[@HeyBluee]

The first thing that came to mind was photographic collages or photomontage, those could fit into a similar category as "remix" I would say. But sampling goes beyond that, from what I understand, so I would recommend looking into post-photographic practices, specially what is known as re-appropriation (English isn't my first language so I'm not 100% sure that's the term, I know it as "apropiación" in Spanish). One rather (in)famous case, that raises very interesting questions about authorship, is Richard Prince and his series of the Marlboro man, where he takes pictures of ads but recontextualize them by separating them from the ad texts, therefore making new compositions. Another interesting author is Penelope Umbrico and her series on sunsets taken from Flickr, where she makes these massive mosaics using different pictures she gathered from the web. Her work focuses on the abundance of images online, and also recontextualize them by making new compositions and exposing them in galleries. There's a lot of more artists that explore post-photography, specially in the digital era, so I would recommend you to look into that if you're interested!

[@DanFingermanOctopus]

@@HeyBluee Woa! Thanks for the super elaborate answer!!! I'll look into it :D

[@JK-ql2en]

This is interesting. The way I consume photobooks is just based on this. I want to be able to find out the back story. It doesn’t’ have to be in the book but there has to be a way to get to it. Without that, giving that we are flooded with visuals nowadays through social media there is not much of a point for me. Most engagement with a book or a photographer for me comes from exhibitions. In your case it was the gallery event in Berlin for “I Know How Furiously Your Heart …” and then your Magnum course. One lead to another but honestly without those 2 cues I probably would not own your books.

[@fanooch1]

You should be writing in your books. Just think how wonderful that would be to find.

[@rds-yg2zi]

hi, there's a book on your right hand side behind you by craigie Horslfield next to the polaroid book by andrei tarkowsky, i wonder if you could tell me its title name? i have two his books, an older one of which has that same photo in its cover but it appears to be a different edition or a different book entirely. i wonder if you could please write to me here some its details or something short about it because he is someone that truly interests me. roberto

When we take a photograph, of a landscape, of a person, of an object, we are photographing the planet. But now, that planet in a photograph, on a sheet of paper or on a screen, is now a world. An object/world "living" on the planet. A certain world, also due to the photographer's decisions. Photography makes worlds born in and from the planet. These worlds are senders that will be received by receivers, which they also have and are "worlds" that live on the planet. A photograph is the narrowest part of an hourglass, the photographer is one of the ampules and the person who sees the photograph is another of the ampules. One of the ampule is the photographer's entire life experience and the other of the ampule is the observer's entire life experience. Then we rotate the hourglass.

[@tailwheel65]

Why is this Chauncey Hare book going for $750 on the used market???

[@charlyrequena]

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[@majki3144]

Totem Animal on your hat?;)

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