Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image

2014
Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image
Author: Alex Webb
Publisher: Photography Workshop Series
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Street photography
ISBN: 9781597112574
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In this series, Aperture Foundation works with the world's top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography-offering 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 photographs-their own and others'-they 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 that's both structured and intuitive.

My Dakota

2012
My Dakota
Author: Rebecca Norris Webb
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Photography, Artistic
ISBN: 9781934435472
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In 2005, Rebecca Norris Webb set out to photograph her home state of South Dakota, a sparsely populated frontier state on the Great Plains with more buffalo, pronghorn, mule deer and prairie dogs than people. South Dakota is a land of powwows and rodeos, corn palaces and buffalo roundups; a harsh and beautiful landscape dominated by space, silence, brutal wind and extreme weather. The next year, however, everything changed for Norris Webb, when her brother died unexpectedly of heart failure. "For months," she writes in the introduction to this volume, "one of the few things that eased my unsettled heart was the landscape of South Dakota. For each of us, does loss have its own geography?" My Dakota is a small intimate book about the west and its weathers, and an elegy for a lost brother.

Memory City

2014
Memory City
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781934435762
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"Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb take an elegiac look at Rochester, New York. For this project, Alex took images with his last rolls of Kodachrome, a formerly vibrant color film that can now only be processed as black-and-white. The resulting photos have a weathered quality akin to a fading memory. Alex also took to the streets of Rochester and shot in digital color--work that punctuates the black and white work with images from his signature style. Rebecca, who still uses film for all her work, responded to the medium's uncertain future by creating an elegiac refrain of color still lifes and portraits of Rochester women past and present. Woven into the book are quotes by many of the famous writers and thinkers who have been connected to Rochester, including women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and poets John Ashbery and Ilya Kaminsky. And the authors have also created a timeline on the cultural history of the city that traces the evolution of a once-vibrant and now complex city."--

The Suffering of Light

2011
The Suffering of Light
Author: Alex Webb
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781597111737
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Review The images - rich in color and visual rhythm - span 30 years and several continents. Of course, Haiti and the Mexican border are well represented, locales that opened up a new way to see. He has been able to render Haiti - a place often depicted for its chaos - with a precise eye, finding personal moments that are as still as they are complex. He can use shadows as skillfully as a be-bop musician to set the tempo. The people in his frames can look like dwarfs being stomped on by giant, disembodied feet. He can make an American street seem far more foreboding than any Third World slum. (David Gonzalez The New York Times 2011-12-18) A 30-year retrospective of a great, and often overlooked, American pioneer of colour photography who pays scant regard to genre boundaries, merging art photography, photojournalism and often complex street photographs. (Sean O'Hagan The Guardian 2011-12-13) In far-flung corners of the globe, Webb captures glimpses of beauty in impoverished lives and stoicism in the face of strife. (Jack Crager American Photo 2011-12-01).

Mary Ellen Mark on the Portrait and the Moment

2015
Mary Ellen Mark on the Portrait and the Moment
Author: Mary Ellen Mark
Publisher: Photography Workshop
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781597113168
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In The Photography Workshop Series, Aperture Foundation works with the world's top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography- offering 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, Mary Ellen Mark-well-known for her pictures' emotional power, be they of people or animals-offers her insight on observing the world and capturing dramatic moments that reveal more than the reality at hand. Through words and pictures, she shares her own creative process and discusses a wide range of issues, from gaining the trust of the subject and taking pictures that are controlled but unforced, to organizing the frame so that every part contributes toward telling the story.

Hot Light/half-made Worlds

1986-01-01
Hot Light/half-made Worlds
Author: Alex Webb
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 91
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Documentary photography
ISBN: 9780500541166
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Gathers photographs taken in Haiti, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Barbados, India, Zaire, Ivory Coast, Uganda, and Trinidad

The Mind's Eye

1999
The Mind's Eye
Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1999
Genre: Photography
ISBN:
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This title features Cartier-Bresson's famous text on 'the decisive moment' as well as his observations on Moscow, Cuba, and China during turbulent times.

La Calle

2016
La Calle
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Publisher: Aperture Foundation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781597113717
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Brings together nearly thirty years of photography by Alex Webb, created from 1978 to 2007 in Mexico City and the surrounding states, villages, and cities.

Think Like a Street Photographer

2023-06-08
Think Like a Street Photographer
Author: Derren Brown
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2023-06-08
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1399615319
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'Never does that old maxim "the harder I practice, the luckier I get" ring truer.' - Matt Stuart Street photography may look like luck, but you have to get out there and hone your craft if you want to shake up those luck vibes. Matt Stuart never goes out without his trusty Leica and, in a career spanning twenty years, has taken some of the most accomplished, witty and well-known photographs of the streets. From understanding how to be invisible on a busy street, to anticipating a great image in the chaos of a crowd, Matt Stuart reveals in over 20 chapters the hard-won skills and secrets that have led to his greatest shots. He explains his purist and uniquely playful approach to street photography leaving the reader full of ideas to use in their own photography. Illustrated throughout with 100 of Stuart's images, this is a unique opportunity to learn from one of the finest street photographers around.