{"id":936,"date":"2009-03-08T09:47:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T16:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/03\/08\/alec-soth\/"},"modified":"2009-03-08T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T17:02:25","slug":"alec-soth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/03\/08\/alec-soth\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Soth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>An interesting artist<\/i><\/p>\n<p>When you read that Alec Soth is represented by none other than ace salesman Larry Gagosian, alarm bells tend to go off.  Isn&#8217;t this the same carpetbagger who persuaded the world that a $100mm diamond encrusted skull was something worth buying?<\/p>\n<p>In Soth&#8217;s case the concerns are ill founded, for his work is insightful, sensitive, and original.  I especially enjoyed the <a href=http:\/\/www.alecsoth.com\/index.html target=_blank>Fashion magazine<\/a> section of his web site.  It&#8217;s a quirky, somewhat sardonic, look at the loons and twits who make up the modern fashion world, a world where publicity and labeling are more important than quality and originality.<\/p>\n<p>Well worth a look.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Soth.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Two prize twits &#8211; Karl Lagerfeld and some other dude at Chanel<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Soth&#8217;s site has several broken links &#8211; inexcusable &#8211; but you can also find his work at the <a href=http:\/\/www.magnumphotos.com\/Archive\/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.StaticPage_VPage&#038;SP=photographers_list&#038;l1=0&#038;XXAPXX=SubPanel0 targe_blank>Magnum<\/a> site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting artist When you read that Alec Soth is represented by none other than ace salesman Larry Gagosian, alarm bells tend to go off. Isn&#8217;t this the same carpetbagger who persuaded the world that a $100mm diamond encrusted skull was something worth buying? In Soth&#8217;s case the concerns are ill founded, for his work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/03\/08\/alec-soth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alec Soth<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}