题 目：签名版丨Alec Soth:A Pound of Pictures / 亚历克·索斯：一磅图片

作 者：Alec Soth

出 版：Mack ，2022

装 帧：精装，156页

尺 寸：31*25.3 cm

 A Pound of Pictures 是对摄影媒介的意识流庆祝，汇集了 Alec Soth 在 2018 年至 2021 年间创作的全新作品集。这本书描绘了一系列广泛的主题——从佛教雕像和观鸟者到阳光探索者和安倍林肯的半身像——反映了摄影对固定和具体化经验的渴望，尤其是当它被印刷图像所代表和回忆时。在这个不拘一格的序列中，图像、纪念品和纪念品以及每天围绕着我们的图像制作者反复出现。索斯的照片构成了一次曲折、沉思的公路旅行，紧接着是他自己的笔记和反思，在长长的后记中。“如果这本书中的图片不是关于它们闪闪发光的表面，”他写道，“那么它们就是关于它们自己的制作过程。它们是关于进入狂喜的特定世界，并在短暂（光、时间）和物理之间建立联系。

A Pound of Pictures is a stream-of-consciousness celebration of the photographic medium, bringing together an entirely new collection of work by Alec Soth made between 2018 and 2021. Depicting a sprawling array of subjects — from Buddhist statues and birdwatchers to sun-seekers and busts of Abe Lincoln — this book reflects on the photographic desire to pin down and crystallise experience, especially as it is represented and recollected by printed images. Throughout this eclectic sequence are the recurring presences of iconography, of souvenirs and mementos, and of the image-makers that surround us day to day. Forming a winding, ruminative road trip, Soth’s photographs are followed by his own notes and reflections in an extended afterword. ‘If the pictures in this book are about anything other than their shimmering surfaces,’ he writes, ‘they are about the process of their own making. They are about going into the ecstatically specific world and creating a connection between the ephemeral (light, time) and the physical。