Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb: Brooklyn, The City Within
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Brooklyn is one of the most dynamic and ethnically diverse places on the planet. In fact, it’s estimated that one in every eight US families had relatives come through Brooklyn when settling in the country. Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb have been photographing this New York City borough for the past five years, creating…
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Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 208
Number of images: 85
Publication date: 2019-09-24
Measurements: 8.81 x 11.44 x 1.1 inches
ISBN: 9781597114561
“(The Webbs) have brought together their greatest images in a new book called Brooklyn: The City Within.” —The Guardian
Alex Webb has published more than fifteen books, including Memory City (2014, with Rebecca Norris Webb), La Calle: Photographs from Mexico (Aperture, 2016), as well as a survey of his color work, The Suffering of Light (Aperture, 2011). Webb became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1979. His work has been shown widely, and he has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007.
Rebecca Norris Webb, originally a poet, often explores the complicated relationship between people and the natural world in her seven books, including The Glass Between Us (2006), Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba (2009, with Alex Webb), and My Dakota (2012). A 2019 NEA grant recipient, she has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among other museums.
Sean Corcoran is the curator of prints and photographs at the Museum of the City of New York and has written extensively on photography, including essays for Elliott Erwitt: At Home and Around the World (Aperture, 2016), and I See a City: Todd Webb’s New York (2017).