Alex Webb: The Suffering of Light
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (836 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597111732 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 204 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Every photographer should own this precious gem. Thank you Mr. Webb for letting us into your world and opening our eyes to possibilities deemed only imaginable. I look at these photos and at times I have a hard time understanding how they could even be real. They are simple beyond anything I've ever seen.But what you have done is created a subtextual world, ima. "Beautiful book, Alex Webb really gives me some sense" according to Allen R. Barrett. Beautiful book, Alex Webb really gives me some sense of what to look for when I travel and shoot street shots, I only wish I could see the way he sees things.. Beautiful photos from a truly gifted and skilled individual. Zach Amazing photos. I only shoot black and white for my personal work, considering myself a traditionalist. But seeing color work as amazing as this really blew my mind. Any photographer would appreciate this collection of photos, especially if they like to do documentary or street photography.
Alex Webb was born in San Francisco in 1952. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 for "Otherwise Known as the Human Condition". . He is a recipient of the Leica Medal of Excellence (2000) and a member of Magnum Photos.Geoff Dyer is the author of "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, "among other novels, and several nonfiction books, including "Out of Sheer Rage". He lives in Los Angeles. His photographs have
You have to go out and explore the world with a camera." Webb's ability to distill gesture, color and contrasting cultural tensions into single, beguiling frames results in evocative images that convey a sense of enigma, irony and humor. Gathering some of his most iconic images, many of which were taken in the far corners of the earth, this exquisite book brings a fresh perspective to his extensive catalog. Featuring key works alongside previously unpublished photographs, "The Suffering of Light" provides the most thorough examination to date of this modern master's prolific, 30-year career.The photographs of Alex Webb (born 1952) have appeared in a wide range of publications, including "The New York Times Magazine," "Life," "Stern" and "National Geographic," and have been exhibited at the International Center of Photography, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He is a recipient of the Leica Medal of Excellence (2000) and the Premio Internacional de Fotografia Alcobendas (2009). Recognized as a pioneer of American color photography since the 1970s, Webb has consi
The people in his frames can look like dwarfs being stomped on by giant, disembodied feet. He can use shadows as skillfully as a be-bop musician to set the tempo. A 30-year retrospective of a great, and often overlooked, American pioneer of colour photography who pays scant regard to genre boundaries, merging art photography, photojournalism and often complex street photographs.--Sean O'Hagan"The Guardian" (12/13/2011)The images - rich in color and visual rhythm - span 30 years and several continents. Of course, Haiti and the Mexican border are well represented, locales that opened up a new way to see.He has been able to render Haiti - a place often depicted for its chaos - with a precise eye, finding personal moments that are as still as they are complex. He can make an American street seem far more f