Alex Webb
(San Francisco, California, 1952 - )
North America, American
Alex Webb has photographed around the world, producing vivid color images of people and the places in which they live. Webb became interested in photography during high school and studied with Charles Harbutt at the Apeiron Workshops, Millerton, New York (1972). While earning his BA in history and literature at Harvard University (1974) he studied photography at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Webb joined Magnum Photos as an associate member in 1976. Many magazines have published his work on assignment, including the NY Times Magazine, Life, Geo, and National Geographic. He has published seven books: Hot Light/Half-Made Worlds: Photographs from the Tropics (1986), Under A Grudging Sun: Photographs from Haiti Libéré 1986–1988 (1989), From the Sunshine State: Photographs of Florida (1996), Amazon: From the Floodplains to the Clouds (1997), Dislocations (1998–1999), Crossings: Photographs from the U.S.-Mexico Border (2003) and Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names (2007).
Webb has received several notable grants: New York Foundation of the Arts Grant (1986), National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1990), Hasselblad Foundation Grant (1998) and Guggenheim Fellowship (2007). He was awarded the Leopold Godowsky Color Photography Award (1988), Leica Medal of Excellence (2000), David Octavius Hill award (2002) and Lucca Photo Festival Award (2008). His work has been featured in solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, including at Aperture Foundation, New York (2011); Museum of Contemporary
Art San Diego (2003); and High Museum of Art, Atlanta (1996). Public collections include Brooklyn Museum; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; Getty Center, Santa Monica; High Museum of Art; International Center of Photography, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Brooklyn, New York
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