In this series, Aperture Foundation works with the worlds top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photographyoffering the workshop experience in a book. Our goal is to inspire photographers of all levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers interested in deepening their understanding of the art of photography. Each volume is introduced by a well-known student of the featured photographer. In this book, internationally acclaimed color photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, offer their expert insight into street photography and the poetic image. Through words and photographstheir own and othersthey invite the reader into the heart of their artistic processes. They share their thoughts about a wide range of practical and philosophical issues, from questions about seeing and being in the world with a camera, to how to shape a complete body of work in a way thats both structured and intuitive.
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Weight: 540g
Dimensions: 190 x 254mm
Publication Date: 27 May 2014
Publisher: Aperture
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781597112574
About Alex WebbRebecca Norris Webb
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. Teju Cole is a photographer essayist and author born in the United States to Nigerian parents and raised in Nigeria. He is the author of two works of fiction: Every Day is for the Thief a novella and the novel Open City which won the PEN/Hemingway Award; the New York City Book Award for Fiction; the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and the Internationaler Literaturpreis from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin. He is a contributor to the New York Times the New Yorker and other publications.