大师画册第一期 | Alex Webb 亚历克斯 韦伯
色彩与构图大师 Alex Webb
这期我们分享他的摄影集
分别是《热光/半成品世界》《伊斯坦布尔》《光的苦旅》
人物介绍
Alex Webb is best known for his complex and vibrant color photographs of serendipitous or enigmatic moments, often in places with socio-political tensions. Over the past 45 years, Webb has worked in places as varied as the U.S.-Mexico border, Haiti, Istanbul, and, most recently, a number of U.S. cities. “My work is questioning and exploratory,” he says. “I believe in photographs that convey a certain level of ambiguity, that ask questions rather than provide answers.”
In 1974, the 22-year-old Webb, a Magnum Photos nominee, began working as a professional photojournalist, going on to work for the New York Times Magazine, Geo, Life, National Geographic, among other magazines. Alex became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1979.
Working mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean, he credits those cultures with inspiring his interest in color, when he transitioned from black-and-white photography in 1979. Webb has published 16 photography books, including The Suffering of Light, a survey of 30 years of his color photographs, and Memory City (with poet and photographer Rebecca Norris Webb, his wife and creative partner), a meditation about film, time, and the city of Rochester, NY, itself, the long-time home of Kodak, in the year following the company’s bankruptcy. His most recent books include La Calle: Photographs from Mexico and the collaboration Slant Rhymes with Rebecca. In fall 2019, Aperture will publish his seventeenth book—and fifth collaboration with Rebecca—Brooklyn: The City Within.
He has received numerous awards and grants including a Hasselblad Foundation Grant in 1998, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1990, and the Leica Medal of Excellence in 2000.
亚历克斯·韦伯以其复杂而充满活力的色彩摄影而闻名，这些摄影捕捉了偶然的或充满谜团的瞬间，通常发生在社会政治紧张的地方。在过去的45年里，韦伯在各种不同的地方工作，包括美墨边境、海地、伊斯坦布尔，以及最近在美国的一些城市。“我的作品是充满质疑和探索的，”他说。“我相信照片应该传达一定程度的模糊性，提出问题而不是提供答案。”
1974年，时年22岁的韦伯成为Magnum Photos的提名成员，开始了职业摄影记者的工作，后来为《纽约时报杂志》、《Geo》、《生活》、《国家地理》等杂志工作。亚历克斯于1979年成为Magnum Photos的正式成员。
他主要在拉丁美洲和加勒比地区工作，他认为这些文化激发了他对色彩的兴趣，自1979年从黑白摄影过渡。韦伯已出版了16本摄影书，包括《光之痛苦》（The Suffering of Light），这是对他30年色彩摄影作品的综述，以及《记忆之城》（Memory City，与诗人和摄影师丽贝卡·诺里斯·韦伯合作，她是他的妻子和创作伙伴），该书探讨了电影、时间和纽约州罗切斯特市本身，这是柯达公司的长期总部，该公司在破产后的一年发生了变化。他最近的书籍包括《拉卡莱》（La Calle: Photographs from Mexico）和与丽贝卡合作的《斜押韵》（Slant Rhymes）。2019年秋季，Aperture将出版他的第17本书，也是与丽贝卡的第五次合作，名为《布鲁克林：城市内的城市》（Brooklyn: The City Within）。
他曾获得多项奖项和资助，包括1998年的哈苏基金会奖、2007年的古根海姆奖学金、1990年的国家艺术基金会奖学金，以及2000年的莱卡卓越奖。
--来自马格南官网、由AI翻译
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“I only know how to approach a place by walking.For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more,trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown,or the secret heart of the known awaits just around the corner.”
“我只知道如何通过步行接近一个地方。对于街头摄影师来说，除了走路，观察，等待和说话，然后再观察，再等待一些，试图保持信心，而那些意想不到的，未知的，或已知的秘密就在拐角处等待着你。”
-------Alex Webb
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《Hot Light Half-Made Worlds》 1986
With his vibrant color photographs and distinctive visual language, Alex Webb weaves together a collective sense of mystery and tension through unfamiliar regions
凭借鲜艳的彩色照片和独特的视觉语言，亚历克斯·韦伯在陌生的地区编织了一种集体的神秘感和紧张感
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《Istanbul A City of a Hundred Names》2007
Over the centuries, Istanbul’s walls have protected an unusual nexus of cultural identities. At times a beacon of progressive pluralism, the city has consistently reinvented itself, from Byzantium to Deutera Roma (New Rome) to Constantinople. Inspired by the city’s longevity and its labyrinthine streets, Alex Webb titled a photographic body of work created over several years of persistent and poetic documentation,“City of a Hundred Names.”
几个世纪以来，伊斯坦布尔的城墙保护着一种不同寻常的文化认同纽带。这座城市有时是进步多元化的灯塔，从拜占庭到Deutera Roma（新罗马）再到君士坦丁堡，这座城市一直在重塑自己。亚历克斯·韦伯（Alex Webb）受到这座城市的长寿和迷宫般的街道的启发，将几年来坚持不懈的诗意记录创作的摄影作品命名为“百名之城”
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《The Suffering of Light》2011
An exemplary study of light, community and culture in Alex Webb's monograph,weaving together the most iconic photographs from his five decades-long career
亚历克斯·韦伯（Alex Webb）的专著中对光，社区和文化进行了模范研究，将他五十年职业生涯中最具标志性的照片编织在一起
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