In a long, friendly conversation with Francesco Zanot, Alec Soth analyzes his most famous photographs as well as others that have been published or are virtually unknown. Each picture gives rise to a charter of its own, an original thought or reflection. Storytelling and the use of color and black and white, staged and candid approaches, and personal and political issues are just a few of the many arguments that the American photographer discusses with Zanot, resulting in a combination of words and images that constitutes both a complex examination of Soth’s work and a manual on that reading of photography itself.
“There are so many things I love about this book:
1) Nobody knows my work better than the Italian critic and curator Francesco Zanot. This book-length conversation is richer than any other interview I’ve ever done.
2) The book’s 78 photographs are wonderfully surprising. While a number of my best known photographs are in the book, there are tons of obscure pictures from my archive that aren’t online anywhere else.The printing is also rock solid.”
Alec Soth
Alec Soth with Francesco Zanot
Ping Pong Conversations
Contrasto
180 pages
21x15cm
78 b/w and color photographs
English text
€25 US$29 ?19
