Alec Soth Interview
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008man of the moment Alex Soth talks about his work.
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Elliott Erwitt – Advice for aspiring photographers
Monday, October 27th, 2008Erwitt said, “It’s a hard road right now, with so many people, and less opportunity. My best advice is to be an heir, and failing that, to take pictures because it’s great fun to do so, and with digital it’s not that expensive. And have a day job and have a wonderful hobby. Photography is just a great way to spend time.”
and from Alex Soth
“Elliott’s advice was the advice I was following. It seemed impossible to make a career as a photographer,” he said. So Soth (rhymes with “oath”) took a job in an art museum, and used his vacation time over the course of several years to pursue a personal project photographing along the Mississippi. That turned into his monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Advice for the shy photographer : Drink More – Alex Soth
Monday, October 27th, 2008Asked later in the program by an audience member how he finds his subjects, Soth said, “Not long before that project [SBM] I was painfully shy. Maybe my biggest fear was being on stage with Elliott Erwitt. So photographing people was therapy. I started by photographing kids in a park…The way to find people and simultaneously deal with my nervousness was got to a bar. So that’s your tip. Drink more.”
