Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb: Walking Blues and Beyond
Join us for a special presentation with internationally acclaimed photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, as they place the new photobook Alex Webb: Walking Blues (Aperture, 2026) into the context of their respective bodies of work, both individual and collaborative.
In Walking Blues, street photographer Alex Webb traverses some forty cities across the United States, documenting moments of connection between communities with his signature eye for bold color and rhythm. Webb was inspired by the lift and pull of blues music, a quintessential American musical form that scores the nation’s history, and his photographs express the improvisation of chance encounters. The culmination of more than a decade of intuitive, open-minded exploration, Webb’s latest book is a vivid chronicle of urban life today.
This program is presented in partnership with the School of Visual Arts. To learn more about this event and to reserve a seat, please see here.
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Image: Alex Webb, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2016; from Alex Webb: Walking Blues (Aperture, 2026). © 2026 Alex Webb
Alex Webb (born in San Francisco, 1952) has published more than fifteen books, including a survey of his color work, The Suffering of Light (Aperture, 2011); Brooklyn (Aperture 2019, with Rebecca Norris Webb); Memory City (2014, with Rebecca Norris Webb); and La Calle: Photographs from Mexico (Aperture, 2016). 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), My Dakota (2012), Night Calls (2020), and her photopoetry book, A Difficulty Is a Light (2024). A 2019 NEA grant recipient, she has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among other museums.
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