http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/98122/alec-soth-with-andrei-codrescu ArtsConnectEd.org Art Collector Set: Alec Soth with Andrei Codrescu http://www.artsconnected.org/images/favicon.png http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/98122/alec-soth-with-andrei-codrescu 16 16 http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/98122/alec-soth-with-andrei-codrescu Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0400 <table cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td class="detail_label">Title</td> <td><h3>Alec Soth with Andrei Codrescu</h3></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="detail_label">Creator</td> <td><h3>Walker Channel</h3></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="detail_label">Date</td> <td><h3>July 14, 2005</h3></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="detail_label" style="padding-right:7px;">Institution</td> <td>Walker Art Center</td> </tr> </table><br/>Photographer Alec Soth's lyric documentation of life along the Mississippi leaves his audience feeling as though they have just paged through a strange yet beautiful dream. Of the book <i>Sleeping by the Mississippi</i>, writer/NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu says, "[He has] the decency (or affection) to disturb none of his subjects, through he disturbed me, a viewer, plenty." From their respective posts at either end of the waterway, Minneapolis-based Soth and New Orleans-based Codrescu come together for an illustrated conversation on the narratives found along the banks of the Mississippi and other stories of America's Great River Road. The evening concludes with a presentation of Soth's current pictorial investigation of Niagara Falls.<br /> <br /> Part of <a href="http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=1974"><i>Contemporary Art in Conversation</i>.</a> http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/98122/alec-soth-with-andrei-codrescu Walker Channel