Support the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund⁣ ⁣ Purchase a limited edition print by Alec Soth & Brad Zellar⁣ at https://littlebrownmushroom.com ⁣ While the recent ICE surge in Minnesota may be winding down, the damage it has left behind is not. The organizations doing the long work of repair, protection, and care remain and they need sustained support. We invite you to stand with the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota Immigrant Rapid Response Fund (IRRF), a coalition of 32 philanthropic leaders rooted in communities most impacted by immigration-related harm.⁣ ⁣ Produced in collaboration with Sister Black Press, it pairs an inkjet photograph by Alec Soth with letterpress text by Brad Zellar.⁣ Purchase at https://littlebrownmushroom.com ⁣

In this video I discuss Martin Parr, what it means to pick personal favorites (versus an authoritative "best"), and my favorite photobook of 2025.⁣ More info on the book: https://jiazazhistore.com/products/214-touch

In this video I discuss my interest in physical works made for specific individuals rather than virtual audiences. After discussing Frank O'Hara's "Personism: A Manifesto" and a variety of letters, photographs and singular books, I talk about my new project: A Year of Letters. If you'd like to be my pen pal, please visit https://littlebrownmushroom.com

The wonderful Polish artist Karolina Wojtas on her experience with The Little Brown Mushroom Workshop. ⁣ ⁣ Apply to our next workshop at LittleBrownMushroom.com

After the success of last year’s workshops, we’re making the 2025 workshop longer, and we’re raising more money for scholarships. More information about applying to the workshop here: https://littlebrownmushroom.com Make a tax-deductible donation to support scholarships here: https://www.givemn.org/story/The-Lbm-Workshop

An extensive reflection on the conception and construction of Alec Soth's most recent book, "Advice For Young Artists." Come for the book analysis, stay for the balloon party! ps. I finally figured out how to add subtitles.

A follow-up to my deleted video on Rosalind Fox Solomon in which I discuss the following books: "A Woman I Once Knew" by Rosalind Fox Solomon “Sex. Death. Transcendence” by Linda Troeller "The Use of Photography" by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie "Suzanne and Louise" by Hervé Guibert "My Mother, My Son" by Mary Frey "I Imagined it Empty" by Ruth Lauer Manenti

Alec Soth gives an in-depth analysis of "A Woman I Once Knew" by Rosalind Fox Solomon.

For info and application, go here: https://littlebrownmushroom.com/ Who: Led by the photographer Alec Soth and assisted by his family and staff, this workshop is open to photographers and visual storytellers. Eleven participants will be selected. What: An intimate...

After Children by Osamu Yokonami 3:27 Odesa by Yelena Yemchuk 9:47 Participation by Jordan Weitzman 15:36 My Husband by Tokuko Ushioda 18:33 Some Say Ice by Alessandra Sanguinetti 25:13 Judith Joy Ross: Photographs 1978-2015 & Tom Sandberg: Photographs 30:10 Mundo de Papel by Thomas Demand 33:16 HAFIZ, by Sabiha Çimen 37:00 Pickpocket by Daniel Arnold 42:50

Using Michael Schmidt's book "Waffenruhe" (1987) as an example, Alec Soth discusses the ways in which stories and biographical information can alter our reading of photobooks. Masahisa Fukase's book "Ravens" (1986) is also briefly discussed.

Alec Soth discusses books that speak to Haruki Murakami's words when he wrote “Chance encounters are what keep us going." 18 by Shinro Ohtake (2002 Douglas Huebler (2002) Narrative Art by Peter Hutchinson (1994) Thrown Rope by Peter Hutchinson (2006) I Walk Toward The Sun Which Is Always Going Down by Alan Huck (2019)

Alec Soth discusses sequencing in filmmaking and still photography using the following books: Der Film Im Westen nichts Neues in Bildern (1931) A Way of Seeing by Helen Levitt (1965) Film-Photos Wie Noch Nie (1929) The Blood of a Poet by Jean Cocteau (1949) Close-Cropped Tales by John Baldessari (1981) A Fine Day by Kishin Shinoyama (1975)

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00:11 On (not) Explaining Your Work 00:56 Exhibition planning 02:03 Photo project tip 02:48 Imagined audience 04:41 Choosing the form for a project 05:55 Niagara Love Letters 07:05 Failure 08:00 Abandoned Project 10:39 Coming up with titles 11:32 Allowing a project to change 13:15 On Paranoia 14:00 Photowork burnout 15:23 The LBM Dispatch 16:57 Considering the viewer 17:44 Advice to your teenage self

Alec Soth discusses filmmaking and still photography using the following books: Can I Ask You A Question: The Art of Casting by Jennifer Venditti Cinematography by Robby Müller Once and Pictures From The Surface of the Earth by Wim Wenders Instant Light by Andrey Tarkovsky True Stories by David Byrne

Alec Soth discusses the groundbreaking exhibition "The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort" and subsequent books by some of its female contributors. Books discussed are: "Present Tense" by JoAnn Verburg "Theater of Manners" by Tina Barney "Reading Raymond Carver" & "Real Life Dramas" by Mary Frey "Animals" & "Perfectible Worlds" by Sage Sohier "Taken From Memory" by Sheron Rupp "Wood River Blue Pool" by Jo Ann Walters "Pleasant Street" & "Vacation" by Judith Black "Family Photographs" by Joan Albert "At Twelve" & "Immediate Family" by Sally Mann "In My Room," "Living Solo" & "Middle Aged Men" by Adrienne Salinger

Alec Soth discusses his most recent book, "A Pound of Pictures," and some of the publications that have influenced it. Books discussed are: ⁣Unholy Erection and Cemetery by Ed Panar The Image To Come by Magnum Photos New Color / New Work by Sally Euclair RFK Funeral Train by Paul Fusco Walker Evans At Work and American Photographs by Walker Evans Cape Light by Joel Meyerowitz Dream Street by W. Eugene Smith IOWA by Nancy Rexroth The Fifties Calendar For 1983 by Sid Kaplan The Coral Sea by Patti Smith Uncommon Places by Stephen Shore Portraits in Life and Death by Peter Hujar Real Dreams by Duane Michals The Democratic Forest by William Eggleston M'as-tu vue by Sophie Calle Portraits of a Reputation by Francesca Woodman Allen Ginsberg Photographs Purchase "A Pound of Pictures": https://mackbooks.co.uk/products/a-pound-of-pictures-br-alec-soth

Alec Soth discusses the pivotal role that informational gaps play in our appreciation of photographs. Books discussed are: Recollections Recreations by Hollis Frampton (1984) The Night Albums by Kate Palmer Albers (2021) Evidence by Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan (2007) Japanese Photobooks of the 1960's and '70s (2009) Chizu by Kikuji Kawada (2021) Also discussed is Nostalgia, a film by Hollis Frampton (1971) For more information about Kikuji Kawada and The Map (Chizu), watch this documentary: https://vimeo.com/408239704

A preview of my new project opening at: Sean Kelly (NYC): Jan 14 – Feb 26 Weinstein Hammons (Minneapolis): Jan 28 - March 26 Fraenkel Gallery (SF): Feb 3 – March 26 Preorder the book at MACK: https://tinyurl.com/2p8mwupy