2016 Best Books: Alec Soth

Books Alec Soth: 2016 Best Books Alec Soth Selects FOLK, Got to Go, and Around the House as the Best Books of 2016

Alec Soth

Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2008, Soth started his own publishing company, Little Brown Mushroom. Soth is represented by Sean Kelly in New York, Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, and is a member of Magnum Photos.

FOLK. By Aaron Schuman. NB, 2016.

FOLK
Photographs by Aaron Schuman

Art projects about ethnography and museology tend to be chilly affairs. But Aaron Schuman’s FOLK feels as affectionate as a family album.

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Got to Go
By Rosalind Fox Solomon. Mack, 2016.

 

Got to Go
Photographs by Rosalind Fox Solomon

What does it say the most powerfully uncomfortable photobook of 2016 was authored by a wildly underrated 86-year-old woman? Rosalind Fox Solomon should be the next White House photographer.

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Around the House
By Robert Adams. Fraenkel Gallery, 2016.

 

Around the House
Photographs by Robert Adams

If you need a break from thinking about the next White House, spend a little time in the Adams’ home and take comfort in clear seeing and modest domesticity.

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