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Alex Webb
Crossings
25x30 cm 150pp.
The Monacelli Press, 2003
The United States-Mexico border is neither the United States nor Mexico; it is rather a 'third country,' 10 miles wide and 2,000 miles long, that lies in between. This borderland, split by the Rio Grande and the border fence, is a place of transience and crossings - of people and goods as well as of ideas and beliefs. Noted photojournalist Alex Webb has spent decades covering the border. This collection of color images - introduced by a black-and-white portfolio - shows a terrain where cultural differences between the two countries are blurred, where industrialized efficiency meets spirituality, where wealth meets poverty, and all are transformed in the process.
United States border towns - El Paso and Brownsville, Texas - rely on cheap Mexican labor, legal and illegal, and Mexican shoppers; communities on the Mexican side - Juarez and Matamoros - are dependent on North American tourism and United States-owned manufacturing plants. Webb?s photographs explore this complex, culturally rich borderland in views of Mexican migrants and American tourists, desolate villages and red-light, honky-tonk border cities. He also focuses on the various forms of smuggling - drugs and people heading north, electronic goods and guns going south - that have come to define the border. The photographer comments on many of the images in extended notes; an essay by noted writer - and Webb?s long-time friend and colleague - Tom Miller explores the concept of the border as a third country and its transformation over the past decades.
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Ausstellungen von/mit Alex Webb
» Check: Alex Webb @ Photography-now.com 08.12. - 19.01.2012: The Suffering of Light: Thirty Years of Photographs , Aperture Gallery, New York, USA
01.12. - 14.01.2012: The suffering of light , Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, CDN
21.10. - 08.01.2012: Elles changent l'Inde / Women changing India - Magnum Photos , Petit Palais , Paris, F
10.10. - 05.11.2011: Portraits - Gallery Selection , Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, USA
17.09. - 22.10.2011: Violet Isle , Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, USA
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