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THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
WORLD CUP 2026 July 1 - 31, 2026Read more -
Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb | Brooklyn: The City Within
@ Robert Klein Gallery (38 Newbury Street) September 12 - November 3, 2019Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb have been photographing this New York City borough for the past five years, creating a profound and vibrant portrait. Alex Webb has traversed every...Read more -
Alex Webb: La Calle
@ Robert Klein Gallery (38 Newbury Street) November 3 - December 23, 2016Join us for an opening reception on Thursday, November 3rd, from 6 to 8pm at our Newbury Street Gallery. Copies of La Calle will be available to purchase, and the...Read more -
Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb: Slant Rhymes
@ Ars Libri (500 Harrison Ave) October 2 - 31, 2014Slant Rhymes, a selection of Webb and Norris Webb’s images from past projects paired together for their visual similarities, will be on display at the gallery’s satellite space, Robert Klein...Read more -
Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb: Memory City
@ Robert Klein Gallery (38 Newbury Street) September 26 - October 31, 2014Webb and Norris Webb took five trips to Rochester, New York, from April 2012 to April 2013 following Kodak’s declaration of bankruptcy in January 2012. The resulting photographs, compiled in...Read more
“I feel the space, the light, the color, the form and the scene simultaneously. I’m not thinking, I’m sensing the street. For me, color isn’t just about color, light isn’t just about light, space isn’t just about space, form isn’t just about form. I’m intrigued with the emotional and sensory tenor of these elements.”
A street photographer whose unique vision spans four decades, Webb does not stage his photos; instead, he pursues the gaps that emerge when immigrants, transients, and children inhabit the same space. For that reason, much of Webb's work can be linked to isolation, whether it is Webb's isolation as an outside observer or the isolation of his subjects from their surroundings.
Early in his career, Webb focused on the Mississippi Delta, using black-and-white film to portray a perpetually conflicted American region. Though he switched to color in the late 1970s, Webb's focus has always gone deeper than the hues, vibrancy, and heat of the climates he photographs. Completing work in Florida, Cuba, Mexico and the U.S-Mexico Border, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, India, Grenada, Istanbul, and Brazil, Webb has earned a name for himself by publishing work in several international publications, including National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Life Magazine, and Geo Magazine.
“My most basic process as a photographer is to wander, allowing the camera and my experiences to lead me where they will. I try to arrive initially in a situation, or a place, with as few rational preconceptions as possible. Of course, that is ultimately impossible; we all are conditioned by our culture, our education, our experiences — what makes us who we are. Nonetheless, I make an effort to be as open as possible to alternative possibilities, possibilities that may contradict what I rationally might expect.”
Alex Webb was born in San Francisco in 1952 and studied at Harvard University. Webb's work has been exhibited at the International Center for Photography, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He is the recipient of the Leica Medal of Excellence (2000), and the Premio Internacional de Fotografia Alcobendas (2009). Webb has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1976 and currently lives in New York City.
Selected Collections:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
International Center of Photography, New York City, NY
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
