Alex Webb on How Color Photography Changes His Way of Seeing

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Alex Webb on How Color Photography Changes His Way of Seeing

Since the 1970s, Alex Webb has distilled gesture, light, and color into layered compositions, creating a “chronicle of the street.”

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/how-alex-webb-sees-in-color/

Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the intense, vibrant color of these worlds. Searing light and intense color seemed somehow embedded in the cultures that I had begun working in, so utterly different than the gray-brown reticence of my New England background. Since then, I have worked predominantly in color

https://aperture.org/editorial/how-alex-webb-sees-in-color/

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