Alex Webb

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How Alex Webb Sees in Color

Since the 1970s, Webb has distilled gesture, light, and color into layered compositions. In this excerpt from his newly reprinted volume “The Suffering of Light,” the photographer reflects on his travels, shooting in color, and creating a “chronicle of the street.”

Alex Webb on Reimagining a Photobook, Twenty-Five Years Later

In a new edition of a long out-of-print volume, Webb draws from photographs across many locations. Here, he considers the act of photography as a form of dislocation in itself.

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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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