Alec Soth and Stacey Baker: This is what enduring love looks like
Alec Soth e Stacey Baker: Assim parece o amor duradouro
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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recebi uma ligação de uma mulher no Texas,
I got a call from a woman in Texas,
in an art exhibition
fotografias em uma exposição de arte
me to take a portrait of her parents.
para fazer um retrato de seus pais.
and I thought this was some sort of
e achei que eles eram magnatas do petróleo
to make this happen.
para fazer isso acontecer.
about photographing Stacey.
em fotografar a Stacey.
one of my best-known portraits.
um dos meus retratos mais famosos.
a Stacey estava trabalhando como advogada
Stacey was working as an attorney
to study photography in Maine,
para estudar fotografia em Maine,
she ended up meeting
ela acabou conhecendo
at the New York Times Magazine
da revista New York Times
Alec and I have done
Alec e eu fizemos
to Alec about a fascination of mine.
com o Alec sobre um fascínio meu.
with how couples meet.
sobre como os casais se conhecem.
and his wife Rachel met,
e sua esposa Rachel se conheceram
of a high school football game
de um jogo de futebol no colegial
in doing a photography project
em fazer um projeto fotográfico
but I was actually much more interested
mas me interessava muito mais
Stacey to have a boyfriend.
que a Stacey tinha tido um namorado.
I thought it'd be interesting
seria interessante
go speed dating
de um evento de namoro relâmpago
as the world's largest speed dating event.
evento de namoro relâmpago do mundo.
de perguntas para quebrar o gelo
breaker questions to get the ball rolling,
ser um animal, qual você seria?"
of animal, what would you be?"
after placing an ad for a Capricorn.
com uma mulher que conheceu
at the end of the evening,
at one of the concession stands.
na fila e outra em um dos estandes.
to the date-a-thon together.
you notice about a woman?"
coisa que você nota em uma mulher?"
com panturrilhas musculosas.
with muscular calves.
triathlons, I run half-marathons.
eu corro meias-maratonas.
if I was attracted to him, but I wasn't,
e me perguntou se senti atração por ele,
que ele se sentiu atraído por mim.
attracted to me either.
running late for a meeting.
atrasada para uma reunião.
em direção ao elevador.
about a woman is her teeth,
que nota em uma mulher são seus dentes,
to help prevent gum disease,
mais para prevenir doenças na gengiva,
that was flossing more
era usar mais vezes,
about auditing. (Laughter)
sobre auditoria. (Risos)
about a woman is her complexion.
em uma mulher é a sua aparência.
wear too much makeup,
usam maquiagem demais,
to accentuate the features that they have.
o necessário para acentuar seus traços.
maquiagem alguma
that that was a good thing.
I was willing to be vulnerable.
a ser vulnerável.
remember my most embarrassing moment.
eu não consegui lembrar do meu maior mico.
mas não estava.
but at the end of the night,
gostado de mim,
e me deu uma caixa de chocolates.
a box of chocolates.
foi o mestre de cerimônia do evento.
was the MC of the event.
"The Young and the Restless."
"The Young and the Restless".
give their phone numbers to him.
darem seus números de telefone para ele.
any of the men that I went on dates with,
com nenhum dos homens que conheci,
a particular connection with me either.
uma ligação particular comigo.
is the quality of vulnerability.
é a qualidade da vulnerabilidade.
in which you can get a glimpse
por onde você consegue entrever
I saw so many examples of that,
and talked to her about them,
da Stacey e conversava com ela sobre eles,
photographic love is from real love.
entre o amor fotografado e o amor real.
and to figure out how someone goes
e descobrir como alguém parte
to having a life together,
retirement community in Las Vegas.
em Las Vegas.
who runs the community's photography club.
o clube de fotografia da comunidade.
in their makeshift photo studio.
em seu estúdio fotográfico improvisado.
Anastasia's husband died two years ago,
da Anastasia morreu, há dois anos,
an old wedding picture.
uma foto antiga do casamento.
when she was a 15-year-old waitress
quando tinha 15 anos e era garçonete
the year in Las Vegas two years in a row,
em Las Vegas dois anos seguidos,
that he met his wife, Judy,
de que ele conheceu sua esposa, Judy,
que o Alec conheceu a Rachel.
to look at beautiful women,
de olhar para mulheres bonitas,
his decision to marry Judy.
sua decisão de casar-se com a Judy.
at a parish dance.
em um baile paroquial.
they weren't especially philosophical
eles não eram especialmente filosóficos
that really stuck with me.
que realmente mexeu comigo.
you just go with it."
sensação, você a segue."
when she was still in high school.
quando ela fazia o colegial.
attracted to each other
particularmente atraídos ao se conhecer.
married soon after.
president, and his wife, Mary.
de fotografia, e sua esposa, Mary.
second marriage.
in Louisville, Kentucky called the Sahara.
em Louisville, Kentucky, chamada Sahara.
and she was with friends.
e ela estava com amigas.
he owed the IRS 9,000 dollars in taxes,
ele devia US$ 9 mil em impostos à Receita,
get out of debt,
a saldar dívida,
his paychecks over to Mary,
ele enviou seus salários para a Mary,
when they married, and Mary knew it.
quando se casaram e a Mary sabia disso.
he says he consumed
he threatened to kill Mary
ele ameaçou matar a Mary
was called to the house.
foi até a casa deles.
in Alcoholics Anonymous
depois que saímos do Sun City,
after we left Sun City,
were all that interesting.
se conheceram eram tão interessantes.
quality of endurance,
a bela qualidade da persistência,
para os solteiros, também.
and the singles were out there
e os solteiros estão por aí
were holding onto each other
were of Joe and Roseanne.
foi a do Joe e da Roseanne.
if they had an old wedding photograph.
aos casais uma foto antiga do casamento.
pulled out of their wallets
tiraram de suas carteiras
I thought to myself,
who has just fallen in love
que acabou de se apaixonar
holding onto this image for decades?
mantém essa foto há décadas?
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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