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Slant Rhymes is a conversation between two world renowned photographers, Magnum photographer Alex Webb and poet and photographer Rebecca Norris Webb, a married creative couple who have authored 18 books. Selected from photographs taken during the Webbs nearly 30-year friendship and later marriage and creative partnership, this group of 82 photographs are paired one of Alex's, one of Rebecca's to create a series of visual rhymes that talk to one another often at a slant and in intriguing and revealing ways. Sometimes we find our photographic slant rhymes share a similar palette or tone or geometry, writes Alex Webb in the introduction to the book. Other times, our paired photographs strike a similar note often a penchant for surreal or surprising or enigmatic moments although often in two different keys. Made in some 15 countries, these photographs many of which have never before been published are interwoven with short text pieces written by the Webbs while they were working together and apart. Taken together, the work forms a kind unfinished love poem, told at a slant.
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A Marriage of Lives and Photos.--James Estrin "New York Times Lens Blog "
Slant Rhymes, a new collaborative book by the photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, amounts to a "long, elliptical, unfinished love poem.--Craig Hubert "Hyperallergic "
In Slant Rhymes, pairs of photographs by Webb and Norris Webb feed each other like poems in a collection... --Michael Juliani "BOMB "
Every spread contrasts a picture apiece by each of them, and the connections between them are mostly delicate and elusive. --Luc Sante "The New York Times "
By the end of this modest but exquisite book, even viewers unfamiliar with either of the Webbs will have a pretty good idea of their individual strengths and tendencies, as well as of, as it were, their house style. --The New York Times
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Slant Rhymes, a new collaborative book by the photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, amounts to a "long, elliptical, unfinished love poem.--Craig Hubert "Hyperallergic "
In Slant Rhymes, pairs of photographs by Webb and Norris Webb feed each other like poems in a collection... --Michael Juliani "BOMB "
Every spread contrasts a picture apiece by each of them, and the connections between them are mostly delicate and elusive. --Luc Sante "The New York Times "
By the end of this modest but exquisite book, even viewers unfamiliar with either of the Webbs will have a pretty good idea of their individual strengths and tendencies, as well as of, as it were, their house style. --The New York Times
ALEX WEBB is best known for his vibrant and complex color photography, often made in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has published 15 books, including Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba (with Rebecca Norris Webb) and The Suffering of Light, a collection of thirty years of his color work. Alex became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1979. His work has been shown widely, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. He s received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and GEO, among other publications. REBECCA NORRIS WEBB: originally a poet, often interweaves her text and photographs in her six books, most notably with her monograph, My Dakota an elegy for her brother who died unexpectedly with a solo exhibition of the work at The Cleveland Museum of Art in 2015. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Le Monde, among other publications, and is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cleveland Museum of Art, and George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY.
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- PublisherLa Fabrica
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 8416248869
- ISBN 13 9788416248865
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages112
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: NEW. Dust Jacket Condition: no jacket as issued. Second Edition. NEW, ships from Hawaii with free Prioeity Mail upgrade within US. Retrospective collection of color photographs in pale green cloth boards Photographs and text by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb. Text excerpts from various contributors.Like all of La Fabrica's previous publications, the reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Alex Webb's and Rebecca Norris Webb's "Slant Rhymes". A photographic conversation between two world-class artists: The Magnum photographer Alex Webb and his wife, poet/photographer Rebecca Norris Webb. They have collaborated before, most notably on "Violet Isle" (2009) and "Memory City" (2014), with terrific results. Here, for the first time, they present paired photographs, one by Alex, one by Rebecca, facing each other, in a visual dialogue that "creates a series of visual rhymes which talk to each other, often at a slant, in intriguing and revealing ways" (Publisher's blurb). Most of the images appear for the very first time, are connected through epigrammatic texts by Rebecca Norris Webb, and result in "an unfinished love poem, told at a slant". "Sometimes we find our photographic slant rhymes share a similar palette or tone or geometry. Other times, our paired photographs strike a similar note, often a penchant for surreal or surprising or enigmatic moments although often in two different keys" (Alex Webb). As a serious photographer who works in color, Alex Webb has few peers. His unerring eye for color, compositional brilliance, and admirable composure in the face of his often harrowing subject, the chaos called modern life, are regarded by many commentators and admirers as being on the same level of achievement as Miguel Rio Branco, one of the greatest Latin-American photographers of our time. Seller Inventory # 566
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