There are a lot of great photographers giving lectures in Boston this fall (a more comprehensive list will be posted in the near future). One such photographer is Magnum member, Alec Soth. Soth, who is going to be at Massachusetts College of Art & Design on October 26th. This lecture is in conjunction with the exhibition of photographs from Soth's most recent book, "Dog Days Bogota". See more information on the event here.
The photography agency Magnum has a comprehensive website with sample images from each of their member photographers. It is a very prestigious agency whose membership is by invitation only. The work that produced by Magnum photographers (and many other documentary photographers) is not photojournalism. Soth's images in particular have a very strong narrative quality and, depending on the "otherness" of the subject may seem to the viewer to be fiction.It makes no attempt to objectively tell the story. That is an impossibility. The images challenge those who still believe that photography and art are distinctly separate by blurring the metaphorical line between the two.
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