LOOK3: Book Signings and UNBOUND Slide Show

Hope to see some of you at the group book signing at LOOK3 Photography Festival this weekend.  We’ll be part of the Masters Book Signing in Charlottesville, Virginia, from 1 to 2 pm, on Friday, June 10th, and Saturday, June 11, along with Mary Ellen Mark, Chris Anderson, and others.  They’ll be copies of Alex’s new book, The Suffering of Light, which just came out from Aperture. (Here’s a link to a new Q&A with Alex on the Aperture site.)

We also hope you’ll be able to see the slide show of the work of the first UNBOUND WORKSHOP at LOOK3, featuring the long-term projects of photographers from 4 different continents: Phaedra Call-Himwich, Michelle Frankfurter, Rajiv Kapoor, David Kasnic, Alejandro Kirchuk, Sebastian Liste, Grzegorz Litynski, Jane Paradise, Eddie Quinones, Sean Schmidt,  and Max Wang. ––Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb

UPCOMING PHOTO PROJECT WORKSHOPS WITH ALEX AND REBECCA:

––Book Weekend with Radius Books (and the Webbs):  Friday, Sept. 23, to Sunday, Sept. 25, Santa Fe, NM

––The Photo Project Workshop: Sunday, Oct. 23, to Saturday, Oct. 29th, New York

All former Webb Workshop participants are invited to participate, but others will be considered as well.

NEW BOOK: Book Launch @ Aperture, June 1st

Alex Webb, cover of "The Suffering of Light" (Aperture), with an essay by Geoff Dyer

 

Please join us to celebrate the launch of Alex’s new book, The Suffering of Light, at Aperture at 6:30pm, which will include a conversation with photographer and critic Max Kozloff and a booksigning afterwards. (To take a look inside Alex’s new book, follow this link to the PhotoEye site.) And here’s a link to a portfolio of Alex’s work from the new book on the La Lettre site, courtesy of the Robert Klein Gallery in Boston, which will have a joint show of our work on Saturday, September 17th, from 2-4pm.

And below you’ll find a rough, homemade video of our Violet Isle show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, an exhibition mentioned in The New York Times on Sunday and reviewed in The Boston Globe on Tuesday, May 31st.   For those who are part of the “Two Looks” online community, please let us know if you get a chance to see Violet Isle at the MFA, Boston, which will be up until January 16, 2012.

By the way, if you visit the MFA by June 16th, be sure and stop by and see the photography show, “Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection,” which includes work by such noted photographers as Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron, Wright Morris, Alec Soth, William Eggleston, Robert Frank, Mitch Epstein, Larry Sultan, Mike Smith, and Helen Levitt.–Rebecca Norris Webb

Notes on “The Suffering of Light” @ Time.com

Alex Webb, "Erie, Pennsylvania, 2010," from "The Suffering of Light"

Perhaps it’s the poet in me, but I love the irony of being able to hold in my hands a series of intangible moments — and Alex’s new book of 30 years of color work is no exception.  

To see a slide show of images  — including the one above from Erie, Pennsylvania, which was the last photograph Alex took for THE SUFFERING OF LIGHT during a road trip with me driving from New York to South Dakota last summer, and, appropriately, the last photograph in the book — and to read Alex’s notes on the bookmaking process, please follow this link to TIME.COM, where you can also leave your comments.

In addition, here’s a link to an excerpt of the Geoff Dyer essay about Alex in the book, an excerpt recently posted on the GUARDIAN website.

For those in the New York area, please join us for the book launch of THE SUFFERING OF LIGHT at Aperture Foundation, 547 W. 27th on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1st at 6:30pm, which will include a conversation with noted critic Max Kozloff as well as a book signing. Alex and I hope to see many of you there.–Rebecca Norris Webb

TWO CITIES: Montreal and Philadelphia

Alex Webb, Gonaives, Haiti, 1987

Please join Alex and Rebecca for their slide talk in MONTREAL on Monday, March 1st at Dawson College. The lecture is called “Together and Apart,” and is open to the public.  It will feature Alex’s work from Haiti, Rebecca’s work from the American West (including the recent photograph below), and their joint work from Cuba.

Rebecca Norris Webb, Poet's House, Rapid City, South Dakota, 2010

And please join Alex and Rebecca for an artists’ reception/book signing for their joint exhibition, “Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba” in PHILADELPHIA on Thursday, March 4th, from 5-7 pm.  It will be held at Gallery 1401 at the University of the Arts, as will a second SPE event and book signing on Friday, March 5th, also from 5-7pm.  PhotoEye will also host a book signing for Alex and Rebecca at SPE on Friday from 1:30-2:30pm.  For more information about all three events, visit Magnum Events.

Alex Webb, Havana, 2001

RNW, Havana, Cuba, 2007

VIOLET ISLE: Book signing/gallery talk

Hope some of you can join us for the Violet Isle book signing/gallery talk on Saturday, Nov. 7th, from 4-6pm at Ricco Maresca Gallery, 529 W. 20th, 3rd floor (between 10th and 11th Aves.).––Alex and Rebecca

Click here to see pages from the newly released Violet Isle on the Magnum site.

Click on Violet Isle invitation to see a selection from the current exhibition at Ricco Maresca Gallery.