Songbook — Alec Soth, 2015 (2021 reprint)

A quiet study of togetherness in an age of distance. Shot between 2012 and 2014 while adopting the role of a local newspaper reporter, these black-and-white photographs move from church basements to tech conventions, school dances to community fairs. Stripped of their original news captions, the images reveal a fragile choreography of American social life—awkward embraces, staged smiles, collective rituals. Published by MACK Books, this reprint preserves one of Soth’s sharpest reflections on connection and isolation after Sleeping by the Mississippi.

Technical Sheet
Title: Songbook
Artist / Author: Alec Soth
Date: 2015 (2021 reprint)
Medium / Materials: Embossed hardback
Dimensions (cm): 28.5 × 27.3 cm
Pages: 144
Language: English
Publisher: MACK Books
ISBN: 978-1-910164-02-0