Magnum Poster: Fountain City, Wisconsin, 2002 Framing:Unframed 36 Views of Mount Fuji

36 Views of Mount Fuji

“It was a radical change for me

and up to the present

Stock began to photograph him

' as Hegel

Magnum Poster: Fountain City, Wisconsin, 2002 Framing:Unframed 36 Views of Mount FujiAlec Soths work is rooted in the American photographic tradition that Walker Evans famously termed documentary style. Concerned with the mythologies and oddities that proliferate Americas disconnected communities, Soth has an instinct for the relationship between narrative and metaphor. His clarity of voice has drawn many comparisons to literature, but he believes photography to be more fragmented; Its more like poetry than writing a novel.