You don't realise how much value Alec's videos provide until they're absent and return again when you've had time to miss them. Thoroughly enjoy these, Alec, thanks for making and sharing them with us.
I hope these videos last forever - future generations of photographers & photo book enthusiast need Alec Soth. So descriptive. So poetic. It puts into words, how many of us view images, but can’t quite put into words. My appreciation is endless.
Respected Alec, Grateful for these videos. Nowadays I am going through and cannot resist myself to send you gratitude. From these lessons, I have learned a lot and a lot of delicate things which maybe I'll never know. I had a huge confusion between photographs and texts. Again I want to say that I am very grateful and blessed to have you and your thoughts and guidance always with me even in a very small village there in INDIA. Please take my gratitude, gratefulness, and respect. Please never mind my poor English. Wishing you good health. Aniruddha Sarkar.
Thank you so much for creating these videos. With each one I discover so many new aspects of experiencing photographs, and you've made it into a journey with lots of space for reflection. It's really wonderful.
Alec, thank you so much for doing these videos. Really touching photographs and very interesting interpretation by you. Waiting patiently for the next episode.
Thanks for another great ramble! I always feel like that even though words/language have enabled us to get a grip on the world, on reality they also can become a hindrance. It seems we tend to live more and more in the words and the stories we tell each other thus preventing us to really see (and feel). Wonderful video again!
Brilliant - thank you. The relationship between quiet and intimacy is really interesting. It also offers a dangerous ('risky' might be a better word) freedom for the viewer to explore his or her story in what ever form it comes up while viewing the pictures.There might also be an interesting thing going on here with the particular (personal) and the universal. I haven't worked through that so it may be nonsense. I have often thought that words attached to photographs don't so much tell me what I am looking at as much as they tell me what to see.
These images leads us to reflect on our own intimacy with others and how moments can say with no words. You give to us by your point of view what really represents photography beyond instagram accounts. Not sure if I typed correct what I wanna say. Everytime you post a video, I remember of my dad during my childhood flipping through his photography books and explaining how the photographer took that photo. But I was captivated by the images reflecting on them for certain time. I think that and the photos that my dad took from the family that leads me to have had interested on photography. And that's why I love your work as well, because make we think and reflect on many aspects of life.
These are three extraordinary and powerful books. Thank you Alec for sharing and providing your insight. The question at the forefront of my mind, especially with the Graves/Lipman is, how did the photographers get access to these situations and settings such that they could capture such amazing moments so beautifully. The prep work and relationship building must have been extensive.
These are great examples that you don’t need words to convey an emotion or the sensation of an experience. What else is pure perception but the experience without the words for it? A poem, perhaps. And yet poems don’t need pictures either.
thanks Alec, in the second book, Restraint & Desire, you stated that the book could almost be titled 'heads and hands'. In a way the book reminds me of the movies of Robert Bresson were hands also took an important role*. I also thought back about your earlier video's on the slight shifting of time and space which in a way has been deliberately used by filmmakers like Tarkovsky, Bergman, Ozu, Wenders and Herzog to name a few. I wondered if you also make similar connections with films sometimes and how you regard to film as it for being inspirational in photography or maybe it being an essentially different art form. * the hands of Bresson, Criterion: th-cam.com/video/uk_yKYhBjKA/w-d-xo.html
You don't realise how much value Alec's videos provide until they're absent and return again when you've had time to miss them. Thoroughly enjoy these, Alec, thanks for making and sharing them with us.
So kind, thank you
The way Alec Soth talks bout photographs and the value of "photo booking" is just absolutely incredible.
in your subtlety and intelligence you are the best teacher I've ever had...thank you.
Great talk. That image of the scar running through Texas stopped me in my tracks.
Thank you, Alec. It's just unbelievable I can watch this here.
I hope these videos last forever - future generations of photographers & photo book enthusiast need Alec Soth. So descriptive. So poetic. It puts into words, how many of us view images, but can’t quite put into words.
My appreciation is endless.
I can't believe your videos are free. Awesome education. Loved your Magnum masterclass as well.
Another valuable lesson! Thank you so much!
Right on Alec. This has to be one of my favorites. Your point of view blows my mind in the most exciting way. ¡Cheers!
Thank you Alec. With love from Philadlephia.
Respected Alec,
Grateful for these videos. Nowadays I am going through and cannot resist myself to send you gratitude. From these lessons, I have learned a lot and a lot of delicate things which maybe I'll never know. I had a huge confusion between photographs and texts.
Again I want to say that I am very grateful and blessed to have you and your thoughts and guidance always with me even in a very small village there in INDIA.
Please take my gratitude, gratefulness, and respect.
Please never mind my poor English.
Wishing you good health.
Aniruddha Sarkar.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR SOTH. THIS IS ABSOLUTE GENEROSITY.
Your videos are rare gems, many thanks for making them. They are a course on how to view photo-books and how to see photos.
Thank you so much for creating these videos. With each one I discover so many new aspects of experiencing photographs, and you've made it into a journey with lots of space for reflection. It's really wonderful.
So glad you share these videos with us. Restraint and Desire looks just so captivating. I tried finding it here in Sweden but no luck so far.
I love your nuanced brilliance when describing these books!
Alec, thank you so much for doing these videos. Really touching photographs and very interesting interpretation by you. Waiting patiently for the next episode.
Sheesh. Goosebumps from this video 🙏🏼
Thank you so much Alec. To share your sensitivity with the world is a gift to me.
Thanks for another great ramble! I always feel like that even though words/language have enabled us to get a grip on the world, on reality they also can become a hindrance. It seems we tend to live more and more in the words and the stories we tell each other thus preventing us to really see (and feel). Wonderful video again!
Thank you Alec. Always a pleasure to listen, to view and to learn from your observations.
I go and find all these books after your videos , it’s amazing.
Thank you for sharing these videos. Each one is a gift.
Brilliant - thank you. The relationship between quiet and intimacy is really interesting. It also offers a dangerous ('risky' might be a better word) freedom for the viewer to explore his or her story in what ever form it comes up while viewing the pictures.There might also be an interesting thing going on here with the particular (personal) and the universal. I haven't worked through that so it may be nonsense. I have often thought that words attached to photographs don't so much tell me what I am looking at as much as they tell me what to see.
Beautiful. Thank you.
These images leads us to reflect on our own intimacy with others and how moments can say with no words. You give to us by your point of view what really represents photography beyond instagram accounts. Not sure if I typed correct what I wanna say. Everytime you post a video, I remember of my dad during my childhood flipping through his photography books and explaining how the photographer took that photo. But I was captivated by the images reflecting on them for certain time. I think that and the photos that my dad took from the family that leads me to have had interested on photography. And that's why I love your work as well, because make we think and reflect on many aspects of life.
Lovely comment. Thank you Paty
These are three extraordinary and powerful books. Thank you Alec for sharing and providing your insight. The question at the forefront of my mind, especially with the Graves/Lipman is, how did the photographers get access to these situations and settings such that they could capture such amazing moments so beautifully. The prep work and relationship building must have been extensive.
Thank you Alec for this video - both the photobooks and your comment with a tender voice of yours are beautiful. 🤍
Thanks Alec. Lovely videos always worth watching
Thank you Alec from Tehran, Iran
Thank you Alec. So meaningful! With respect and love from Chiang Mai, Thailand
Just love these videos. The discussion on a lack of context in images was really eye opening.
This is very moving, thank you Alec Soth.
Great books! Gave me a lot of inspiration. Thanks from Sweden!
Your back.......so cool.....I really thought you'd never make another video....so happy you did
Thanks for making these Alec. This one is beautiful.
Thanks a lot for share with us.
thank you!
Thank you, Alec!
Your videos always make my day.
These are great examples that you don’t need words to convey an emotion or the sensation of an experience. What else is pure perception but the experience without the words for it? A poem, perhaps. And yet poems don’t need pictures either.
amazing. thanks.
Thank you!!🙌
Gracias Alec
Really enjoyed that. Thank you.
NEW VIDEO PLEASE!!! ❤
Always mind expanding
Thank you so much!
Really come away with a great feeling of examening a photograph without help or hints.
Have you looked at Restraint and Desire with its "companion" book called Derby?
Yes, it’s excellent too
other analog photography:
th-cam.com/video/yS8DmCFp8kA/w-d-xo.html
thanks Alec, in the second book, Restraint & Desire, you stated that the book could almost be titled 'heads and hands'. In a way the book reminds me of the movies of Robert Bresson were hands also took an important role*. I also thought back about your earlier video's on the slight shifting of time and space which in a way has been deliberately used by filmmakers like Tarkovsky, Bergman, Ozu, Wenders and Herzog to name a few. I wondered if you also make similar connections with films sometimes and how you regard to film as it for being inspirational in photography or maybe it being an essentially different art form.
* the hands of Bresson, Criterion: th-cam.com/video/uk_yKYhBjKA/w-d-xo.html
That’s an excellent observation, I can definitely see the connection
WoW
It's notable that all three books feature black and white photography.
Well, Eggleston is another quintessential example of a “wordless” photographer. So I don’t think it has anything to do with color vs. black and white.
Thank you, Alec! ❤️