{"product_id":"alec-soth-songbook","title":"Alec Soth: Songbook","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnown for his haunting portraits of solitary Americans in \u003cem\u003eSleeping by the Mississippi\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBroken Manual\u003c\/em\u003e, Alec Soth has recently turned his lens toward community life in the country. To aid in his search, Soth assumed the increasingly obsolescent role of community newspaper reporter. From 2012-2014, Soth traveled state by state while working on his self-published newspaper, \u003cem\u003eThe LBM Dispatch\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as on assignment for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and others. From upstate New York to Silicon Valley, Soth attended hundreds of meetings, dances, festivals and communal gatherings in search of human interaction in an era of virtual social networks. With \u003cem\u003eSongbook\u003c\/em\u003e, Soth has stripped these pictures of their news context in order to highlight the longing for connection at their root. Fragmentary, funny and sad, \u003cem\u003eSongbook\u003c\/em\u003e is a lyrical depiction of the tension between American individualism and the desire to be united.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555534278713,"sku":"210000001820","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/a1izw2otmyl.jpg?v=1790279016","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/alec-soth-songbook","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}