there's just something really beautiful about the way it renders space. >> alec soth is an artist who uses photography to really tell stories, but he's doing this in a way that is not the traditional type of storytelling with photography. his idea of finding the beauty in the unexpected, looking in out-of-the-way places for subjects and scenes that somehow evoked an america or a place that people would not really anticipate. in 2004, alec was chosen as one of the artists in the whitney biennial, which is a showcase nationally of american artists. it's a show meant to take the pulse of what's happening in american art, and it includes a spectrum of artists from emerging to well-known, and for a virtual unknown as he was at that time, it was a huge launching pad. >> i'm preparing for an exhibition at the walker art center. it's a big survey show, work from all over america. what i wanted to do with the show at the walker is not have it be a retrospective because i don't think i'm old enough for a retrospective, and i wanted to give it some sort of shape. to be a local artist, it's reall