Alec Soth and Stacey Baker: This is what enduring love looks like
Alec Soth + Stacey Baker: So sieht ewige Liebe aus
Stacey Baker assigns photography for the wide-ranging vision of the weekly New York Times Magazine. Full bioAlec Soth - Photographer
Alec Soth makes large-scale projects that are as much about dreams and heartache as they are about charting the landscape of Middle America. Full bio
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I got a call from a woman in Texas,
in an art exhibition
auf einer Kunstausstellung gesehen
me to take a portrait of her parents.
Porträt ihrer Eltern machen könnte.
and I thought this was some sort of
wohlhabenden Öl-Magnaten,
to make this happen.
um dies zu ermöglichen.
about photographing Stacey.
Stacey zu fotografieren.
one of my best-known portraits.
Stacey was working as an attorney
Staatsanwältin für den Bundesstaat Texas.
to study photography in Maine,
um in Maine Fotografie zu studieren,
she ended up meeting
at the New York Times Magazine
des New York Times Magazine kennen
Alec and I have done
haben Alec und ich
für das Magazin zusammengearbeitet
to Alec about a fascination of mine.
Alec erzählt, was mich fasziniert.
with how couples meet.
wie Paare sich kennen lernen.
and his wife Rachel met,
seine Frau Rachel sich trafen,
of a high school football game
von dem High School Football-Spiel,
in doing a photography project
Fotografie-Projekt interessiert wäre,
but I was actually much more interested
Stacey to have a boyfriend.
konnte, dass Stacey je einen Freund hatte.
I thought it'd be interesting
jemanden kennenzulernen.
go speed dating
am Valentinstag zum Speed Dating
as the world's largest speed dating event.
weltgrößten Speed Dating-Veranstaltung.
breaker questions to get the ball rolling,
Fragen, um ins Gespräch zu kommen,
of animal, what would you be?"
welches würdest du sein?
after placing an ad for a Capricorn.
nach einem Steinbock suchte.
at the end of the evening,
at one of the concession stands.
in der Schlange einer Snackbar geküsst.
to the date-a-thon together.
zu diesem "Date-a-thon".
you notice about a woman?"
bei einer Frau als Erstes auf?"
with muscular calves.
mit muskulösen Waden hingezogen.
triathlons, I run half-marathons.
ich laufe Halbmarathons.
if I was attracted to him, but I wasn't,
doch dem war nicht so,
attracted to me either.
nicht zu mir hingezogen.
running late for a meeting.
und zu spät für ein Meeting.
noch zu bekommen.
about a woman is her teeth,
an Frauen auffällt, seien ihre Zähne,
gegenseitig Komplimente über unsere.
to help prevent gum disease,
täglich Zahnseide benutzt,
that was flossing more
ob das öfter war,
das habe ich nicht laut gesagt.
about auditing. (Laughter)
drei Minuten über Buchhaltung. (Lachen)
about a woman is her complexion.
bemerkt, ist ihr Teint.
wear too much makeup,
zu viel Make-Up tragen
to accentuate the features that they have.
ihre Besonderheiten betonen sollten.
gar kein Make-Up trage,
that that was a good thing.
I was willing to be vulnerable.
mich auf etwas einzulassen.
remember my most embarrassing moment.
erinnern konnte.
doch das tat ich nicht.
but at the end of the night,
aber am Ende des Abends
a box of chocolates.
eine Schachtel Pralinen.
was the MC of the event.
moderierte die Veranstaltung.
"The Young and the Restless."
"Schatten der Leidenschaft" mit.
give their phone numbers to him.
ihm ihre Nummern gaben.
any of the men that I went on dates with,
der Männer hingezogen
a particular connection with me either.
zu mir hingezogen fühlten.
is the quality of vulnerability.
ist die Eigenschaft der Verletzbarkeit.
in which you can get a glimpse
und man kann einen Augenblick
I saw so many examples of that,
viele solcher Momente sehen,
and talked to her about them,
und mit ihr über sie sprach,
photographic love is from real love.
von der wahren Liebe ist.
and to figure out how someone goes
zu einem gemeinsamen Leben kommt,
to having a life together,
nach Sun City Summerlin,
retirement community in Las Vegas.
von Rentnern in Las Vegas.
who runs the community's photography club.
der den lokalen Fotografieclub leitet.
in their makeshift photo studio.
in seinem improvisierten Fotostudio.
Anastasia's husband died two years ago,
Anastasias Mann vor zwei Jahren,
an old wedding picture.
alte Hochzeitsfotos besitzt.
when she was a 15-year-old waitress
the year in Las Vegas two years in a row,
Fotograf des Jahres in Las Vegas.
that he met his wife, Judy,
dass dieser seine Frau Judy
wie Alec seine Rachel.
to look at beautiful women,
schöne Frauen ansieht,
his decision to marry Judy.
Judy geheiratet zu haben.
at a parish dance.
they weren't especially philosophical
that really stuck with me.
das ich nie vergessen werde:
you just go with it."
dann lässt du dich einfach darauf ein."
when she was still in high school.
Blind Date. Sie ging noch zur Schule.
attracted to each other
keine Anziehungskraft,
married soon after.
am meisten beeindruckte,
president, and his wife, Mary.
des Fotoclubs, und seiner Frau Mary.
second marriage.
in Louisville, Kentucky called the Sahara.
"Sahara" in Louisville, Kentucky.
and she was with friends.
und sie kam mit ihren Freundinnen.
he owed the IRS 9,000 dollars in taxes,
hatte er 9.000 Dollar Steuerschulden
get out of debt,
ihm mit seinen Schulden zu helfen.
his paychecks over to Mary,
Mary seine Gehaltsschecks
when they married, and Mary knew it.
Mary heiratete, und sie wusste das.
he says he consumed
he threatened to kill Mary
ihre zwei Kinder umzubringen,
was called to the house.
Polizeikommando stürmte das Haus.
in Alcoholics Anonymous
Anonymen Alkoholiker
Sun City verlassen hatten,
after we left Sun City,
die Geschichten über das Kennenlernen,
were all that interesting.
nicht besonders spannend fand.
zusammen zu bleiben.
quality of endurance,
eine bemerkenswerte Ausdauer,
and the singles were out there
und die Singles versuchten,
were holding onto each other
were of Joe and Roseanne.
war das von Joe und Roseanne.
if they had an old wedding photograph.
Paare nach alten Hochzeitsfotos zu fragen.
pulled out of their wallets
eines aus ihrem Portemonnaie,
I thought to myself,
who has just fallen in love
das sich gerade verliebt hat,
holding onto this image for decades?
das gleiche Foto für Jahrzehnte
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Stacey Baker - Photo editorStacey Baker assigns photography for the wide-ranging vision of the weekly New York Times Magazine.
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Alec Soth - Photographer
Alec Soth makes large-scale projects that are as much about dreams and heartache as they are about charting the landscape of Middle America.
Why you should listen
Alec Soth is a photographer born and based in Minnesota. He has published several books, including Sleeping by the Mississippi, Niagara and Broken Manual. The New York Times once wrote that Soth has made a "photographic career out of finding chemistry with strangers." His editorial work routinely appears in The New York Times Magazine, he is a member of the Magnum photo agency, and his work was featured in the Whitney Biennial in 2004.
In 2008, Soth started his own experimental publishing company, Little Brown Mushroom, that explores the possibilities of combining images and text. After publishing seven issues of his own newspaper, Soth compiled this work into his latest monograph, Songbook.
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