I got a very large compliment! Someone said my work reminded them of Alec Soth, so I've put up some of his interior images.
These images are hauntingly empty. It seems as if something has happened here. Soth's main focus is people, interspersed with these loaded scenery shots, the feel is quite different here, divorced from their contexts. His work is situated firmly in an American tradition along with Robert Frank and company, however aesthetically his images have a very different feel.
The Last Days of W.
Paris Minnosota
Two Towels
Sleeping by the Mississippi
Kaskaskia
Green Island
New Orleans
Bible Study Book
This last one reminds me a little of my shot of the writing tablet in the parlor, however that has more to do with the arrangement of the objects than my photo taking because my image is tragically under exposed, where as Soth's is beautiful.
I think the similarity comes from the emptiness, which in his work is disheveled and long abandoned-looking, mine photos display much more furnished interiors, if my images seem abandoned, it looks to be much more recently.
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