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London trip: 28/01/2016
AS Photography
Alec Soth
Context • The term gathered leaves
references the way in which a group of sheets form together to make leaves.
• Soth travelled America taking images to form his series.
Artist statement• The exhibition features four of
Soth’s main series:• Sleeping by the Mississippi- 2004• Niagara- 2006• Broken Manual- 2010• Songbook- 2014• T• T
• Soth is a photojournalist, blogger, educator, self publisher and instagrammer.
• Soth specialises in documentary photography.
• He considers himself an American photographer documenting the landscape of his country.
Niagara- Misty 2005 This image is called
“Misty” and is part of the “Niagara” series.
This photo has an air of mystery as denotations of
the image are that the woman in the frame is
going swimming but her full face of makeup
contradicts this fact. The make up in the shot also
highlights the way in which societies modern beauty standards can
control women.
The depth of field of the image helps to draw the
viewers eye to the subject.
Niagara- Two towels 2005This image is called “Two
towels” and is part of the “Niagara” series.
The denotations of this image are that someone in a hotel has made two
towel sculptures of swans.
The connotations of this image however are that beauty can be found in even the most plain of
places and that humanity is unfaithful, the fact that humanity is unfaithful can be inferred from the fact that swans mate for life
and have been placed on a bed which is a world
known symbol for love but also relates to affairs.
Songbook- Miss Model contestants, Ohio
This image is called “Miss Model
contestants” and was part of the “Songbook”
series.
The denotations of this image are that these are contestants in a
beauty pagent.