Songbook at Loock Galerie

We are proud to present "Songbook", an exhibition of the new black and white photographs by internationally celebrated photographer Alec Soth.

Known for his haunting portraits of solitary Americans in "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Broken Manual", Alec Soth has recently turned his lens toward community life in the United States. Over the course of three years, Soth, accompanied by writer Brad Zellar, set out from Minneapolis, Minnesota pretending to be a small-town reporter for the self-published newspaper "LBM Dispatch". In the spirit of W. Eugene Smith and other Life Magazine photojournalists from the 1940s and 1950s, he traveled to specific areas across the United States for weeks at a time, photographing the people, topography, and local history. With Songbook, Soth has stripped these pictures of their journalistic context in order to highlight the longing for connection at their root. Fragmentary, funny, and sad, Songbook is a lyrical depiction of the tension between American individualism and the ongoing desire to be united.