The American night comes into the light of day in Alec Soth’s stunningly stark, jarring psychological pictures of those who’ve chosen the path least traveled. Soth gives us the pieced-together, ruptured lives of hermits—men who’ve run away from the world; who live in shacks, caves, deserts, rooms with writing on the walls; who fashion odd objects like medieval helmets, collect old videotapes, or live on the edge of the woods. We see broken lives, incomplete completeness, damaged instincts, characters who all reach out from the inside. In Soth’s eyes, they are granted temporary immunity.
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