Are popularity and fame valid arguments to discredit a body of work? No.
Recent success and a wide public appeal have become excuses in certain art circles to diss the work of Minnesota based photographer Alec Soth.
Niagara.
Published in 2006 was Soth's second book. He spent two years constantly traveling to Niagara falls to impeccably document around themes such as love, affairs, loneliness and deash. The place were prom dates go for their first night and were others go to end their life. "The sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if
not the keenest, disappointments in American married life."
The book contains 36 detailed and very well composed photographs by Soth, a five page essay by American novelist Richard Ford, a six page essay by Philip Brookman, and personal notes both from strangers Soth met during the project and others written by the author himself.
The book contains 36 detailed and very well composed photographs by Soth, a five page essay by American novelist Richard Ford, a six page essay by Philip Brookman, and personal notes both from strangers Soth met during the project and others written by the author himself.
An amazing example of a coherent concise photographic project as a whole.
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