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Transcription: {SPEAKER name="Alec Soth"}
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So one of the, one of the peep-creative people that I was working with, I, you know, I said, this thing with the models is not doing it

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we need something else, and uh, I need real

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and, So we decided to photograph his wife, this is his wife. And what's cool about this picture is, I;d never met her, so.

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and, we set it up so that I go to her house, bring in the camera and everything. She's sleeping. And we, we take the picture right when she wakes up,

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you know, like, okay, I'm set up. Wake up. Boom. Take the picture.

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There's another picture. So then the stylists all come in. And they do the hair and the make up and everything, they get her all dressed up, and that's whatever the dress we're showing off, we show off.

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And that's the other picture, and I don't really care about the other picture. But I love making this right when she wakes up.

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And what a cool, I mean, this is why I love being a photographer, is you know, that kind of intimacy too.

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Cause I was able to kick people out of the, I was able to be in the room, you know, maybe there was one other person with me in there,

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but to be in the room when a stranger wakes up. That's pretty great. Any takers here? Okay I got the segue.


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So I was in Paris, and I, and I was doing the shooting, but, you know for me,

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and I was trying to figure out what is this project about? And, very quickly I realize, you know, I live in Minnesota, I'm not as fashion savvy as maybe some of the Parisians.

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And, You know, and going, and dealing with these fashion people, I just, was really aware of what an outsider I was.

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And I was also thinking about what is fashion? I mean fashion is the way you present yourself to the world.

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And yes, you know "couture" is one way of presenting yourself to the world, but I mean actually, this is fashion, what you were wearing is fashion.

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And so I wanted to juxtapose it to something else, and I wanted to sort of show myself in this.

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so I decided to do fashion on the other side, in Minnesota, where I live. And so the final project is called Paris, Minnesota. So we have this and we then have this. And