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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 07.06. - 28.06.2008: MAGNUM FOOTBALL
, Momentum Photographie/Editione, Wien, A
22.03. - 27.04.2008: Colour: The Suffering of Light , Contemporary art center Winzav, Moskva, RUS
08.02. - 12.05.2008: MAGNUM Photos 60 years , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
14.06. - 27.07.2007: Istanbul , Sepia International, New York, USA
13.06. - 29.07.2007: Magnum Photos of Muhammad Ali - Curated by Maryum Ali and Gene Kilroy , 401 Projects, New York, USA
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