Alex Webb Looks Back in Black-and-White

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Alex Webb Looks Back in Black-and-White

The photographer Alex Webb is known for his color work, but his black-and-white 1976 project documenting Mound Bayou, Miss., is the one he regrets not completing.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/alex-webb-looks-back-in-black-and-white/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Alex Webb was a 23-year-old photographer in 1976 when he put his belongings in a New York darkroom and headed south in his beat-up Volvo, which doubled as his bedroom. His experiences led his meanderings, and he occasionally picked up assignments that financed his work.