A Pound of Pictures

Alec Soth

BOO 3391 U
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CONDITION & NOTES
Near Fine

TYPE PUBLICATION YEAR
Hardcover

2022

EDITION LANGUAGE
First

English

PUBLISHER DIMENSIONS
MACK 31.5 x 26 x 2.5 cm
CONDITION
Near Fine

TYPE
Hardcover

PUBLICATION YEAR
2022

EDITION
First

LANGUAGE
English

PUBLISHER
MACK

DIMENSIONS
31.5 x 26 x 2.5 cm

ABOUT

A Pound of Pictures is a stream-of-consciousness celebration of the photographic medium, bringing together an entirely new collection of work by Alec Soth made between 2018 and 2021. Depicting a sprawling array of subjects — from Buddhist statues and birdwatchers to sun-seekers and busts of Abe Lincoln — this book reflects on the photographic desire to pin down and crystallise experience, especially as it is represented and recollected by printed images. Throughout this eclectic sequence are the recurring presences of iconography, of souvenirs and mementos, and of the image-makers that surround us day to day. Forming a winding, ruminative road trip, Soth’s photographs are followed by his own notes and reflections in an extended afterword. ‘If the pictures in this book are about anything other than their shimmering surfaces,’ he writes, ‘they are about the process of their own making. They are about going into the ecstatically specific world and creating a connection between the ephemeral (light, time) and the physical (eyeballs, film).’