Alec Soth

Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has published over twenty-five books including Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), NIAGARA (2006), Broken Manual (2010), Songbook (2015), I Know How Furiously Your Heart is Beating (2019), and A Pound of Pictures (2022). Soth has had over fifty solo exhibitions including survey shows organized by Jeu de Paume in Paris (2008), the Walker Art Center in Minnesota (2010) and Media Space in London (2015). Soth has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (2013). In 2008, Soth created Little Brown Mushroom, a multi-media enterprise focused on visual storytelling.

 

The IKS Collection includes several editions such as ‘Looking for Love, 1996’ and ‘Niagara, 2005’, the large-format poster book, as well as a number of authorised exhibition prints from the series ‘Sleeping by the Mississippi, 2000/2002’ and ‘Toky, 2015’.

 

A documentary film by Ralph Goertz about Alec Soth forms part of the IKS media archive and available to stream on vimeo on demand.

 

 

Mount Curve. Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1996

 

 

Harbor Marina, Memphis, Tennesse, 2000

 

 

Cemetry, Fountain City, Wisconsin, 2002

 

 

Happiness Inn, 2005 (Niagara)

 

 

Poster book, 2013, published by GOLIGA

 

 

Park Hyatt, Tokyo, 2015