Weinstein Hammons Gallery is pleased to present A Pound of Pictures, an exhibition of sixteen large format works by the internationally renowned artist Alec Soth. The works will be on view beginning Friday, January 28th. 

A Pound of Pictures is a stream of consciousness and celebration of the photographic medium, representing a new collection of work shot between 2018 and 2021. The project takes its title from Soth’s encounter with a vendor in Los Angeles who sold photographs “by the pound.” The series depicts a sprawling array of subjects, from statues of Buddha to sunseekers on Fire Island to a bust of Abraham Lincoln buckled up in the backseat of a Honda Odyssey, this project reflects on the photographic desire to pin down and crystallize experiences, especially as they are represented and recollected as printed images. 

Resulting from a winding, ruminative road trip, Soth’s photographs are about the process of their own making, creating a connection between the ephemeral (light and time) and the physical (eyeballs, film). A Pound of Pictures is a highly self reflective project which draws on themes and ideas found in Sleeping by the Mississippi and later bodies of work. 

Alec Soth lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has published over twenty-five books, including his first critically acclaimed monograph Sleeping by the Mississippi, in 2004. He has gone on to publish titles such as NIAGARA (2006), Fashion Magazine (2007), Dog Days, Bogotá (2007), The Last Days of W (2008), Broken Manual (2010), Songbook (2015), Gathered Leaves (2015) and most recently I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating (2019). In 2008 Soth started his own publishing company, Little Brown Mushroom, which is based in Minnesota. Soth’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at international museums including the Deichtorhallen Internationale Kunst und Fotografie, Hamburg; the National Media Museum, Bradford, UK; The Finnish Museum, Helsinki; the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; El museo de Bogotá, Colombia; the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; the Jeu de Paume, Paris; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. His work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, amongst others.

A Pound of Pictures will have three concurrent presentations with slight content variations at Sean Kelly in New York (January 13-February 26, 2022) and Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco (February 3-March 26th, 2022). Coinciding with the exhibition, MACK Books will publish a new monograph titled A Pound of Pictures in 2022.

Please click here to view a short video on the project.