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Portrait by Alec Soth, Face-to-Face talk
Brandon Fortune, curator of painting and scuplture at NPG, discusses a portrait by photographer Alec Soth. The photograph - titled Adelyn, Ash Wednesday, New Orleans, Louisiana - was taken by Soth in New Orleans, while he was working on his book Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004). The image is on display in the recently opened exhibition "Portraiture Now: Feature Photography." View the online exhibition at: http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/feature . Recorded at NPG, January 22, 2009. Image info: Adelyn, Ash Wednesday, New Orleans, Louisiana / Alec Soth / Chromogenic print, 2000 / Collection of the artist, courtesy Gagosian Gallery, New York City / Copyright Alec Soth
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By National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian InstitutionBrandon Fortune, curator of painting and scuplture at NPG, discusses a portrait by photographer Alec Soth. The photograph - titled Adelyn, Ash Wednesday, New Orleans, Louisiana - was taken by Soth in New Orleans, while he was working on his book Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004). The image is on display in the recently opened exhibition "Portraiture Now: Feature Photography." View the online exhibition at: http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/feature . Recorded at NPG, January 22, 2009. Image info: Adelyn, Ash Wednesday, New Orleans, Louisiana / Alec Soth / Chromogenic print, 2000 / Collection of the artist, courtesy Gagosian Gallery, New York City / Copyright Alec Soth