Alec Soth

Soth worked across photographer. This article rests on 2 catalogued photographs, 19 published texts and 4 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

• Name — Alec Soth • Born — 1969 • Birthplace — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States • Education — Sarah Lawrence College • Occupation — Photography • Website — alecsoth.com

Soth was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. He studied at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. He was reported to be "painfully shy" in his youth.

In 2010, Soth founded the publishing house, Little Brown Mushroom (LBM). Through it, he publishes his own, and that of other like-minded people, "narrative photography books that function in a similar way to children's books," in book, magazine and newspaper formats. He has collaborated on numerous books with Brad Zellar, a Minnesota writer from the Twin Cities.

In 2004, Soth became a nominee of the Magnum Photos agency and in 2008 became a full member. Early in his career, he was also taken up by Gagosian Gallery and is now represented by Sean Kelly Gallery in New York.

Soth lives with his wife Rachel Cartee and their children in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• 2006: Alec Soth 'Niagara', Gagosian Gallery, New York City • 2009/10: Niagara, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA • 2010/11: Alec Soth: Black line of woods, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA • 2010: Mississippi Niagara, Triennale di Milano, Milan • 2010/11: Alec Soth: From here to there, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN • 2012: Alec Soth: La Belle Dame sans Merci, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Central Exhibition Hall Moscow Manege, Moscow • 2015/16: Gathered Leaves, Media Space, Science Museum, London, 2015/16; The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, 2016/17, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Japan, 2022 • 2020: Alec Soth: Photography is a Language, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna

Alec Soth was born on 1 January 1969 in Minneapolis. Soth held the nationality of United States. Soth was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and Breck School.

• Sleeping by the Mississippi. With essays by Patricia Hampl and Anne Wilkes Tucker and "Selected Notes to the Photographs". • Göttingen: Steidl, 2004.. • Göttingen: Steidl, 2008.. • Expanded edition with 2 additional photographs. London: Mack.. • Niagara. Göttingen: Steidl, 2008.. Photographs by Alec Soth, essays by Richard Ford,"1962", and Philip Brookman, "Over the Rainbow: Alec Soth's Niagara". • London: Mack, 2018.. • Fashion Magazine. Paris: Magnum, 2007.. • Dog Days Bogota. Göttingen: Steidl, 2007.. • Last Days of W. St. Paul, MN: Little Brown Mushroom, 2008. • Sheep. TBW Subscription Series #2. Oakland, CA: TBW, 2009. Edition of 800 copies. The other volumes are by Todd Hido, Abner Nolan and Marianne Mueller. • Broken Manual. Göttingen: Steidl, 2010.. With Lester B. Morrison. • From Here to There: Alec Soth's America. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2010.. Catalogue of a retrospective exhibition curated by Siri Engberg. Foreword by Olga Viso; texts by Geoff Dyer, "Riverrun"; Britt Salvesen, "American History"; Barry Schwabsky, "A Wandering Art"; a poem by August Kleinzahler, "Sleeping it off in Rapid City"; and Soth in conversation with Bartholomew Ryan, "Dismantling My Career". Includes separate book The Loneliest Man in Missouri by Soth, inserted into back cover. • Ash Wednesday, New Orleans. Kamakura, Japan: Super Labo, 2010. • One Mississippi. Nazraeli, 2010. • Lonely Boy Mag. No. A-1: Alec Soth's Midwestern Exotica. St. Paul, MN: Little Brown Mushroom, 2011. Edition of 1000 copies. Photographs and text by Soth. • One Day: 10 Photographers. Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2011.. A boxed set of ten books of photographs taken on 21 June 2010. Edited by Harvey Benge. The other books are by Jessica Backhaus, Gerry Badger, Benge, John Gossage, Todd Hido, Rob Hornstra, Rinko Kawauchi, Eva Maria Ocherbauer and Martin Parr. • La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Edizioni Punctum, 2011. Edition of 500 copies. • Italian-language edition. Text in Italian. 175 copies of the 500 total edition. • Looking for Love. Berlin: Kominek Bücher, 2012. • Bogota Funsaver. One Picture Book 88. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2014.. Edition of 500 copies. • Songbook. Göttingen. London: Mack, 2015.. • Gathered Leaves. London: Mack, 2015.. 29 large format postcards and mini facsimile versions of Sleeping by the Mississippi, Niagara, Broken Manual, and Songbook. With an introduction by Kate Bush and an essay by Aaron Schuman. • I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating. London: Mack, 2019.. Includes an interview with Soth by Hanya Yanagihara. • A Pound of Pictures. London: Mack, 2022.. • Gathered Leaves Annotated. London: Mack, 2022.

• Suburban World: The Norling Photos. Saint Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society; Borealis, 2008.. Brad Zellar, Irwin D. Norling, Soth. • The Auckland Project. Santa Fe, NM: Radius, 2011.. Two volumes in a slipcase, the other is by John Gossage, Southern stars: a guide to the constellations visible in the southern hemisphere. • Alec Soth's Lonely Boy Mag 2: Boys and Their Cars. St. Paul, MN: Little Brown Mushroom, 2011. Text and photographs by Todd Hido, Soth, Chad States and erotic dioramas by Peter Davidson. Edition of 1000 copies. • The 1968 Project: A Nation Coming of Age. Saint Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 2011.. Brad Zellar, Soth. • Rodarte. JRP|Ringier, 2011. Photographs by Soth and Catherine Opie. • House of Coates. Photographs by Alec Soth and Lester B. Morrison, text by Brad Zellar. • Saint Paul, MN: Little Brown Mushroom, 2012.. • Coffee House, 2014.. • Ohio. LBM Dispatch #1. Saint Paul, MN: Little Brown Mushroom, 2012. B008ESQB4Y. Text by Brad Zellar. Edition of 2000 copies. • Upstate. LBM Dispatch #2. Saint Paul, MN: Little Brown Mushroom, 2012. Text by Brad Zellar. Edition of 2000 copies. • Michigan. LBM Dispatch #3. Saint Paul, MN: Little Brown Mushroom, 2012.. Text by Brad Zellar. Edition of 2000 copies. • Three Valleys. LBM Dispatch #4. Saint Paul, MN: Little Brown Mushroom, 2013. Text by Brad Zellar. Edition of 2000 copies. • Colorado. LBM Dispatch #5. Saint Paul, MN: Little Brown Mushroom, 2013. Text by Brad Zellar Edition of 2000 copies. • Texas. LBM Dispatch #6. Saint Paul, MN: Little Brown Mushroom, 2013. Text by Brad Zellar. Edition of 2000 copies. • Georgia. LBM Dispatch #7. Saint Paul, MN: Little Brown Mushroom, 2014. Text by Brad Zellar. Edition of 2000 copies. • Ping Pong Conversations: Alec Soth with Francesco Zanot. Rome: Contrasto, 2013.. Transcripts compiled from conversations between Soth and Zanot, with new and previously published photographs by Soth. Zanot contributes an introduction, "Alec Soth: the Recycling of Photography". • The Parameters of Our Cage. London: Mack, 2020.. Correspondence between Soth and Christopher Fausto Cabrera, an inmate in the Minnesota Correctional Facility.

• The Image To Come: How Cinema Inspires Photographers. Göttingen: Steidl, 2007. • Georgian Spring: A Magnum Journal = ქართულიგაზაფხული მაგნუმი ს დღიურები. London: Chris Boot, New York: Magnum, 2009.. Introduction by Wendell Steavenson. Photographs by various Magnum photographers. • Brighton Picture Hunt. Brighton: Photoworks, 2010.. Photographs by Carmen Soth, edited by Soth. • Postcards From America. Photographs by Soth, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Mikhael Subotzky, and Ginger Strand. Magnum, 2012. A book, bumper stickers, a newspaper, two fold-outs, three cards, a poster and five zines, all in a box. Edition of 500 copies. • About Face. San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2014.. With essays by Philip Gefter, Sandra S. Phillips, and Ulrike Schneider. Edition of 1000 copies. Exhibition catalog. • The Open Road: Photography & the American Road Trip. Edited and with text by David Campany. Photographs by various. • New York: Aperture, 2014.. • Road Trips: Voyages photographiques à travers l'Amérique. Paris: Textuel, 2014.. French-language version. • En la Carretera: Viajes fotográficos a través de Norteamérica. Madrid: La Fábrica, 2014.. Spanish-language version. • Rochester 585/716: A Postcard from America Project. New York: Aperture; San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2015.. Edition of 1000 copies. Photographs by various Magnum photographers. • ABC Photography. Berlin: Tarzipan, 2017. Photographs by various. Text by Monte Packham. • Home. Tokyo: Magnum Photos Tokyo, 2018..

Soth's work is held in the following public collections: • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL: 3 prints • Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL: 6 prints (as of June 2018) • Museum of Modern Art, New York: 1 print (as of June 2018) • Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA: 12 prints (as of June 2018) • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA: 14 prints (as of June 2018) • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN: 55 holdings (prints and books, as of June 2018) • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: 4 prints (as of June 2018)