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Biografía de Rebecca Norris Webb. Rebecca Norris nació en 1956 en Rushville, Indiana. En 1972, con 16 años, se mudó a las Black Hills, una cadena montañosa pequeña y aislada que se eleva desde las Grandes Llanuras de América del Norte en el oeste de Dakota del Sur y se extiende hasta Wyoming. Allí creció su amor por la naturaleza.
Webb has published 16 photography books, including The Suffering of Light, a survey of 30 years of his color photographs, and Memory City (with poet and photographer Rebecca Norris Webb, his wife and creative partner), a meditation about film, time, and the city of Rochester, NY, itself, the long-time home of Kodak, in the year following the company’s bankruptcy.
It combines Alex’s photographs from the streets of Cuba with Rebecca’s photographic discoveries of quirky collections of animals all over the island. Originally conceived of as two separate projects, the collaboration creates a multi-layered portrait of what Pico Iyer calls “the ambiguous island,” in his afterword to the book. Alex Webb ...
On Street Photography and the Poetic Image is an unusual photography book...neither a monograph nor a history; not a how-to manual in any conventional sense...But for the serious photographer at any level of expertise, it is as spirited and as gentle a look as one would wish into how to think like a photographer.—Teju Cole, from the Introduction.
Istanbul: City of 100 Names comes out of Alex’s meanderings through the streets of Istanbul. Asian and European, Islamic and secular, ancient and modern, the city is a kind of borderland. With an introduction by Orhan Pamuk, the book feeds off his notion of “huzun”—the uniquely Turkish note of melancholy that seems to suffuse the ...
For five years, Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb photographed their home borough of Brooklyn. Alex explored Brooklyn’s tremendous diversity—including Mexican Brooklyn, Caribbean Brooklyn, Chinese Brooklyn—echoing his past work photographing a variety of cultures around the world, except instead of traveling by plane, he simply took the subway.
Dislocations is a limited edition book lying somewhere between a traditional artist book and a mass-market publication. Limited to 40 copies, it is an accordion fold book with tipped in laser prints. The photographs come from Alex’s extensive travels and are unified by a note of dislocation: not only geographical and cultural dislocation, but ...
