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" Alec Soth is a born storyteller. That&amp;#039;s evident in his acclaimed projects such as &amp;quot;Sleeping by the Mississippi,&amp;quot; a collection of portraits and landscapes photographed along the mythic American waterway that he has described as &amp;quot;a series of scenes in a lucid dream,&amp;quot; and in the more recent &amp;quot;Last Days of W,&amp;quot; an elegiac look at the nation toward the end of George Bush&amp;#039;s presidency. Soth&amp;#039;s images are mesmerizing, multilayered, and psychologically evocative\u2014from the young Tennessee man in full camouflage with a blank stare and lapful of peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches to the sad fluorescent-lit fa\u00E7ade of the Terrace Court motel beneath a gorgeous, impossibly blue Niagara Falls sky.  &amp;quot;Alec has the ability to convey an enormous amount in a single image,&amp;quot; says Siri Engberg, curator of the artist&amp;#039;s show this September at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Soth&amp;#039;s hometown and base. &amp;quot;He has the tenacity to track down an array of unexpected subjects and the eye to find real beauty and poignancy in overlooked places.&amp;quot;  Like Robert Frank and William Eggleston before him, Soth sets off in his car, chancing upon unlikely models as he explores back roads and small towns, charming and cajoling survivalists, newlyweds, loners, and other strangers into sitting for him. &amp;quot;Anyone who knows me from my painfully shy childhood can&amp;#039;t believe I photograph other people,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;I liken it to somebody who&amp;#039;s afraid of heights going into skydiving. It&amp;#039;s therapy.&amp;quot;  His connection to these individuals is evident in portraits imbued with remarkable dignity. &amp;quot;Alec possesses a sensitivity to the human condition,&amp;quot; says noted Miami collector Martin Margulies, who owns more than two dozen of his works. &amp;quot;I have a large group of social-documentary photography, and Alec understands that path and is furthering it in his own unique and lyrical way.&amp;quot;   Click here to see the photographs of Alec Soth. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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