Alec Soth: The Last Days of W

Of this body of work, Soth writes, “Henri Cartier-Bresson famously said, ‘The world is going to pieces and people like Adams and Weston are photographing rocks.’ But I don’t think the world would have been a better place if these photographers had headed off to a war zone. The question is whether you can be a political photographer while you photograph rocks.

Color photograph of a simple model of a church sitting on a wooden table
Color photographic portrait of a young man with a shaved head dressed in a camouflage military uniform with two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on his lap
Color photograph of an empty set of the Oval Office with desk and painted backdrop in a convention hall setting
Color photograph of a man reclining on a massage table under a bare tree on a green lawn next to a running track
Color photograph of a girl in a cowboy hat and boots cradling a life-size plastic skeleton
Color photograph of a ping pong table in front of a mural of a man reaching out of the sea to another dressed in white walking on water
Color photograph of an elderly man standing on a brown lawn looking down at a model rocket in his hand
Color image of busy street at night filled with fast food restaurants and gas stations as fireworks go off in the distance
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