Alex Webb: La Calle: Photographs from Mexico

Alex Webb: La Calle: Photographs from Mexico

La Calle brings together more than thirty years of photography from the streets of Mexico by Alex Webb, spanning 1975 to 2007. Whether in black and white or color, Webbâ€™s richly layered and complex compositions touch on multiple genres. As Geoff Dyer writes, Wherever he goes, Webb always ends up in a Bermuda-shaped triangle where the distinctions between photojournalism, documentary, and art blur and disappear. Webbâ€™s ability to distill gesture, light, and cultural tensions into single, beguiling frames results in evocative images that convey a sense of mystery, irony, and humor.
Following an initial trip in the mid-1970s, Webb returned frequently to Mexico, working intensely on the U.S.â€“Mexico border and into southern Mexico throughout the 1980s and â€™90s, inspired by what poet Octavio Paz calls Mexicanismâ€•delight in decorations, carelessness and pomp, negligence, passion, and reserve. La Calle presents a commemoration of the Mexican street as a sociopolitical bellwetherâ€•albeit one that has undergone significant transformation since Webbâ€™s first trips to the country. Newly commissioned pieces from noted Mexican and Mexican American authors lend further insight into the roles the streets have played for generations: part arterial network, part historical palimpsest, and part absurdist theater of the everyday.
Country USA
Brand Aperture
Manufacturer Aperture
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-09-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781597113717

Country	USA
Brand	Aperture
Manufacturer	Aperture
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2016-09-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781597113717

Alex Webb: La Calle: Photographs from Mexico

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