{"product_id":"i-know-how-furiously-your-heart-is-beating-signed-edition-alec-soth","title":"I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating - Signed Edition Alec Soth","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"There are other words for Soth's strategy – \u003cem\u003epoetry\u003c\/em\u003e, for one, or\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003epunk\u003c\/em\u003e. Nothing\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eis harder than making it look easy.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e– David O'Neill\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTaking its name from a line in the Wallace Stevens’ poem “The Gray Room,” Alec Soth’s latest book is a lyrical exploration of the limitations of photographic representation. While these large-format color photographs are made all over the world, they aren’t about any particular place or population. \u003c\/span\u003eBy a process of intimate and often extended engagement, Soth’s portraits and images of his subject’s surroundings involve an enquiry into the extent to which a photographic likeness can depict more than the outer surface of an individual, and perhaps even plumb the depths of something unknowable about both the sitter and the photographer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“After the publication of my last book about social life in America, \u003cem\u003eSongbook\u003c\/em\u003e, and a retrospective of my four, large scale American projects, \u003cem\u003eGathered Leaves\u003c\/em\u003e, I went through a long period of rethinking my creative process. For over a year I stopped traveling and photographing people. I barely took any pictures at all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen I returned to photography, I wanted to strip the medium down to its primary elements. Rather than trying to make some sort of epic narrative about America, I wanted to simply spend time looking at other people and, hopefully, briefly glimpse their interior life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn order to try and access these lives, I made all of the photographs in interior spaces. While these rooms often exist in far-flung places, it’s only to emphasize that these pictures aren’t about any place in particular. Whether a picture is made in Odessa or Minneapolis, my goal was the same: to simply spend time in the presence of another beating heart.” – Alec Soth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes interview with \u003cstrong\u003eAlec Soth\u003c\/strong\u003e by Hanya Yanagihara.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACKBOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39768105189537,"sku":"","price":65.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0345\/2121\/9205\/products\/iknowhowfuriouslyyourheartisbreating.jpg?v=1642033288","url":"https:\/\/todomodo.live\/en\/products\/i-know-how-furiously-your-heart-is-beating-signed-edition-alec-soth","provider":"Todo Modo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}