Alec Soth

Jan 12, 2025 | lensculture.com | Alec Soth

New Visions Photography Awards 2025 – Deadline January 15, 2025Enter Today View Images Alec Soth’s new book avoids straightforward answers. Set against the playful, chaotic backdrop of art schools, it delves into creativity, self-discovery, and the existential aspects of becoming—and remaining—an artist. Two clues open Alec Soth’s Advice for Young Artists.

Sep 10, 2024 | frieze.com | Alec Soth

My new book, Advice for Young Artists (2024), has a deceptive title. I don’t have any advice. Instead of playing the role of wise elder, this book was an attempt to remind myself of how I felt when I first discovered artmaking. Here are five books that put gasoline in my engine back then:Silence (1961) by John CageWhen I was young and hungry for inspiration, I didn’t read books in a linear way. I was a hummingbird plucking nectar where I could find it.