Alex Webb @ Aperture in NYC

[Damaso]

If you are in NYC I highly recommend you see this amazing show of more than 30 years of Magnum photographer Alex Webb's work. It is really stunning!

http://lightbox.time.com/2011/05/16/alex-webb-notes-on-the-suffering-of-light/#2

http://www.aperture.org/gallery/

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
Between 10th and 11th Avenues
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

Gallery and Bookstore hours:
Monday–Saturday, 10:00 am–6:00 pm
Sunday, Closed
Holiday Closures:
November 24–26, 2011
December 3, 2011
December 24–31, 2011


Exhibition on view:
Friday, December 9, 2011–
Thursday, January 19, 2012

 

[sevres_babylone]

And if you're in Toronto, Stephen Bulger's Alex Webb exhibition continues into January -- not sure of his Christmas hours though. I went to the opening, but I hope to go back before it ends, since it could be another ten years before they're shown in Toronto again.

The first image you posted, of Grenada, would be my choice as the greatest colour photograph of all time.

 

[jippiejee]

It'd almost be worth traveling there for the exhibition alone...

 

[jsrockit]

Thanks for the info Damaso.

 

[Papercut]

thanks for the HeadsUp! Definitely want to get to see this.

 

[Damaso]

If you haven't seen the show here's a review I wrote:

http://www.amsterdamnews.com/arts_a...cle_dc761176-31ac-11e1-8ea8-001871e3ce6c.html

 

[sevres_babylone]

Thanks for the link. I especially liked your paragraph in which you discuss his composition after talking about how Webb believes in the "visual intelligence of the viewer."

I was fortunate to have the time this morning for a return visit to the Stephen Bulger gallery in Toronto (exhibition here closes tomorrow, I think) to view the photographs once again, with the bittersweet knowledge that it may be another 10 plus years before they are shown here again.

 

[Damaso]

I hope everyone who can goes to see the show, it really is inspiring!

 

[newsgrunt]

The Webb show at Bulger is supposed to close on the 14th I believe. Been awhile since I've been (old queen St. spot will date me) but the gallery had a nice book section as well.

 

[sevres_babylone]

The Webb show at Bulger is supposed to close on the 14th I believe...

Thanks for the correction. January 14th is the last day for the Toronto show:
http://www.bulgergallery.com/dynamic/fr_exhibit_invitations.asp?ExhibitID=225

 

[Nando]

I highly recommend seeing Alex Webb's work. I visited the exhibition at the Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto about a month ago. The quality of the photographs and the prints were exceptional. The Stephen Bulger Gallery is wonderful.

Alex Webb print, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto by ~ Nando ~, on Flickr


At the Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto by ~ Nando ~, on Flickr

 

[rdeleskie]

I agree with all the praise above. The Toronto show was excellent. I even picked up the monograph, which is also outstanding.

 

[BobYIL]

I hope everyone who can goes to see the show, it really is inspiring!

Thanks for the HU.. I am in Istanbul, I wish I could be visiting the exhibition.

In the '60s and '70s we were fascinated by the color works of Ernst Haas. Kodachrome I was 16ASA only, many photojournalists stayed away from it. Haas' photography was magnificent however mainly based on either static or rather blurred views of moving subjects. Many great photographers in those years were on either the Tri-X or HP3/HP4 to make us wonder if there would be some great photojournalism on color film too. Later years we saw David Alan Harvey, William Albert Allard, Steve McCurry and Alex Webb who had accomplished in color what the other masters did in B&W.

For me Alex Webb is quite unique for I sometimes think he's employing form and geometry as masterfully as HCB.. and in a bold and daring way and I could not see this with the younger members of Magnum... I am afraid that an era will be closed with such photographers.

Regards,

Bob

 

[Nigel Meaby]

Hmm here in the UK there seem to be two versions of the First Edition of the book available an Aperture and Thames & Hudson one. Anyone know if one is of better quality than the other in terms of printing quality and so on?