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.

13 Photographers on Their “Photo No-Nos”

Photographers often have unwritten lists of subjects they tell themselves not to shoot—things that are cliché, exploitative, derivative, sometimes even arbitrary.

9 Photographers on Keeping Their Eyes Open to the World around Them

In a new book for young readers, Rinko Kawauchi, Alec Soth, Wendy Red Star, and others speak about how we engage with the world through the camera.

11 Photographers on Seeking the Unexpected in Their Work

Sabiha Çimen, Susan Meiselas, Alex Webb, and more on how happy accidents and unusual turns led to their most memorable images.

Fifteen Photographers at a Crossroads

How can a photograph transform us?

13 Photographers on What Freedom Means to Them

Highlights from the Magnum Square Print Sale

Alex Webb's La Calle Gives Voice to Mexico's Streets

Webb’s “La Calle” captures the intense color, cultural tension, and mystery of Mexico’s streets

From Magnum Photographers, 10 Decisive Moments

Magnum’s Square Sale, online now through June 10th, is an opportunity to collect decisive moments from Magnum photographers.

Alex and Rebecca Norris Webb Street Photography Workshop @ MCNY

The two renowned New York–based street photographers lead a photography workshop.

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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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