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Alex Webb became interested in photography during his high school years and attended the Apeiron Workshops in Millerton, New York, in 1972. He majored in history and literature at Harvard University, at the same time studying photography at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. In 1974 he began working as a professional photojournalist and he joined Magnum Photos as an associate member in 1976. | Alex Webb became interested in photography during his high school years and attended the Apeiron Workshops in Millerton, New York, in 1972. He majored in history and literature at Harvard University, at the same time studying photography at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. In 1974 he began working as a professional photojournalist and he joined Magnum Photos as an associate member in 1976. | ||
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Webb received a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in 1986, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1990, a Hasselblad Foundation Grant in 1998 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. He won the Leopold Godowsky Color Photography Award in 1988, the Leica Medal of Excellence in 2000 and the David Octavius Hill Award in 2002. His photographs have been the subject of articles in Art in America and Modern Photography. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, in museums including the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the International Center of Photography, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. | Webb received a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in 1986, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1990, a Hasselblad Foundation Grant in 1998 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. He won the Leopold Godowsky Color Photography Award in 1988, the Leica Medal of Excellence in 2000 and the David Octavius Hill Award in 2002. His photographs have been the subject of articles in Art in America and Modern Photography. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, in museums including the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the International Center of Photography, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. | ||
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| + | * ''Overseas Press Club Award'', 1980 | ||
| + | * ''New York State Council on the Arts Grant'', 1986 | ||
| + | * ''Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Award'', 1988 | ||
| + | * ''W. Eugene Smith Foundation Grant'', 1990 | ||
| + | * ''National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship'', 1990 | ||
| + | * ''Hasselblad Foundation'', 1998 | ||
| + | * ''Leica Medal of Excellence'', 2000 | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
Revision as of 12:18, 15 January 2014
Alex Webb is a photojournalist associated with Magnum Photos. He has primarily worked in color, has published several books, and has contributed to such magazines as GEO, Time, and the New York Times Magazine.
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Biography
(from magnumphotos.com)
Alex Webb became interested in photography during his high school years and attended the Apeiron Workshops in Millerton, New York, in 1972. He majored in history and literature at Harvard University, at the same time studying photography at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. In 1974 he began working as a professional photojournalist and he joined Magnum Photos as an associate member in 1976.
During the mid-1970s Webb photographed in the American south, documenting small-town life in black and white. He also began working in the Caribbean and Mexico. In 1978 he started to photograph in color, as he has continued to do. He has published seven photography books, including Hot Light/Half-Made Worlds: Photographs from the Tropics, Under A Grudging Sun, Crossings, the limited edition artist book Dislocations and Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names.
Webb received a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in 1986, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1990, a Hasselblad Foundation Grant in 1998 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. He won the Leopold Godowsky Color Photography Award in 1988, the Leica Medal of Excellence in 2000 and the David Octavius Hill Award in 2002. His photographs have been the subject of articles in Art in America and Modern Photography. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, in museums including the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the International Center of Photography, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Awards
- Overseas Press Club Award, 1980
- New York State Council on the Arts Grant, 1986
- Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Award, 1988
- W. Eugene Smith Foundation Grant, 1990
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1990
- Hasselblad Foundation, 1998
- Leica Medal of Excellence, 2000
Gallery
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© Alex Webb / Magnum Photos
Literature
- Hot Light/Half-Made Worlds: Photographs from the Tropics, Thames & Hudson, USA, 1986
- Under a Grudging Sun: Photographs from Haiti Libere, Thames & Hudson, USA, 1989
- From The Sunshine State, Monacelli Press, Inc., USA, 1996
- Amazon: From the Floodplains to the Clouds, Monacelli Press, Inc., USA, 1997
- Dislocations, Film Study Center at Harvard University, USA, 1998/99
- Crossings: Photographs from the U.S.-Mexico Border, Monacelli Press, USA, 2003
- Alex Webb Habla Con Max Kozloff, La Fabrica, Spain, 2003
- Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names, with Orhan Pamuk, Aperture, New York, 2007
