Alec Soth: Portraits - The Ground Glass

In October of 2004, photographer Alec Soth went on assignment for LIFE magazine to capture weekend soldiers at an Airsoft military simulation in Joelton, Tennessee.

In anticipation of his upcoming Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program exhibition, filmmaker Mike Dust traveled alongside Soth for this three-day excursion, interviewing and shooting alongside him as he worked to capture images for, both the magazine shoot as well as for his personal work.

A number of these photographs (Odessa, Joelton, Tennessee, 2004 and Josh, Joelton, Tennessee, 2004) became part of the exhibition Alec Soth: Portraits at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts the following spring. The video piece created during that shoot was installed in the gallery as an accompaniment to the exhibition.

The video is broken into three segments entitled On Assignment, Portraiture, and The Ground Glass.

Alec Soth: Portraits - The Ground Glass (3:06, segment 3 of 3), 2005, Video, 8 minutes, produced and directed by Mike Dust, © 2005 National Projects

http://www2.artsmia.org/wiki/index.php/Video:_Alec_Soth:_Portraits
http://www.alecsoth.com/

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• portrait
• soth
• artist
• magnum
• airsoft
• minneapolis
• exhibition

[akrem3]

amazing man and by far my favorite photographer, even though my work looks nothing like his.

[RiceTactics]

fascinating perspective of the subject/photographer relationship. makes me want to get a bulky 4x5 or 8x10 camera and get rid of all my other stuff.

[rayofminneapolis]

A Mike Dust / Alec Soth collaboration!? Awesome! I wonder how many people in the world can realize how cool this is.

Great info from Alec. I'd not yet known about those kinds of cameras....