Magnum Poster: Fountain City, Wisconsin, 2002 Fine Prints From grandstanding politicians and celebrity

From grandstanding politicians and celebrity culture to cinematic vistas

which gradually seeped into his work from 1941 right up until the end of his life

the absurdity of the image further supported by a second dog on the left sitting in exactly the same pose as the surreal dog-man composite

On the Sixth Day offers an intimate vision of both coexistence and brutality where the lives of animals and farmers share a practical and ritual space

they interact more personally than anywhere else in the public domain

Magnum Poster: Fountain City, Wisconsin, 2002 Fine Prints From grandstanding politicians and celebrityAlec 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.