Website Analysis 2 - Alec Soth

 

The second photographers website i decided to study was Alec Soths. Mainly because I am familair with his business blog 'Little Brown Mushroom'. His blog posts in my eyes are constantly pushing people to buy his work and this seems the only time its ever updated, therefore I wanted to see what his website was like in comparison.

The first time I went onto Soth's website I instantly thought it was trying to be quite humerous, and I didn't take it very seriously. Although this factor did make me want to look at more.

The layout of the website is very simple, with only blues whites and blacks used the first page doesn't put you off with a chaotic feel at all. We are given a very brief introduction and simply 6 drop down menus to the left hand side of the page. Easy to navigate to and effectivly quick.

The font Alec Soth has used for his introductory 3 sentences as ther most dominating part of the entery page fits in well with the content. Compared to other websites it is a slightly different less simle and professional font, but works well with what he has written nevertheless.

I decided to click on the Project tab along the side, where i was then confronted with 6 different bodies of work to look at. When clicking on one it simple comes up with 2 photographs. One being an image containing text which informs us of the project we are looking at (most of them being a book he has made), and the other is an exhibition of the work I want to look at. Although when I click on the photo it comes up slightly bigger, I still want to see each images big and individually instead. I found this quite dissapointing.

\The layout is fairly simple which is good, meaning its easy to navigate and know where to go back or forth on the page.

The CV tab includes a long list of Soth's work, commisions, and exhibitions. Along with this is a more in depth description of him and his work. A great place to go for research!

The Press section is very similar and includes tons of usful infromation which is layed out very simply which is inviting and doesn't seem to much to read due to the way each bit of information is seperate.

The contact section has a few different links to different people who we could contact regarding Soths work or for any information we want to know, this is a crutial and useful option on any website! Its layed out simple and allows us to navigate where we want to simply.

The links section is useful and allows us to visit different areas of LBM. Great marketing!

Overall i think this website it great when it comes to layout due to how simple and easily accessed it is to anyone wanting to view it. The only thing I don't like about the website is the lack of options to view his photographs seperatly. I think this is one of the most important factors, and when you can skip through images at your own pace it helps to satisfy us and keep us engaed with what we are looking at. Soths website could easily be mistaken for boring due to the simlicity, but does give us useful information on the photographer himself.