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Colby College Museum of Art - Alec Soth: Summer Nights at the Dollar Tree
Thursday, May 19, 2016, 10:00am - 05:00pm
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Alec Soth: Summer Nights at the Dollar Tree
Upper Jetté Galleries
Accompanying Robert Adams’ Turning Back is a 2012 video by Alec Soth (American, b. 1969) entitled Summer Nights at the Dollar Tree. This was conceived as a response to Summer Nights, a 1985 book of photographs taken by Adams during nocturnal rambles near what was then his home in Colorado. According to Adams, “What attracted me to the subjects at a new hour was the discovery then of a neglected peace.” Twenty years old when he first encountered the Adams book, and in search of a comparable “romantic solitude,” Soth also began shooting at night.
Location Colby College, 4000 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville, ME
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