alex soth: the fantasy of retreat + makeshift lairs of those who have gone off the grid

A couple of weeks ago in the New Yorker, Vince Aletti wrote a brief description of an exhibition of photographer Alec Soth’s work: Soth’s subject here is elusive; he seeks out people who’ve gone off the grid, tracking survivalists, drifters, and recluses to their makeshift lairs… …Working through his own ambivalence—what he describes as “the…

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