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Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb: Brooklyn, The City Within

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Brooklyn is one of the most dynamic and ethnically diverse places on the planet. Over five years, Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb have created a luminous photographic portrait of this New York City borough. Alex captures the tremendous cultural diversity throughout Brooklyn, reflecting his global photography experience. Meanwhile, Rebecca focuses on the "city within the city," photographing peaceful spaces like the Botanic Garden, Greenwood Cemetery, and Prospect Park where the community finds solace. Together, their work explores themes of immigration, identity, and the meaning of home.
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The authors have been photographing Brooklyn, one of the most dynamic and ethnically diverse places on the planet, for the past seven years. Together, their photographs of Brooklyn tell a larger American story, one that touches on immigration, identity, and home.

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Brooklyn, The City Within showcases Brooklyn as one of the most dynamic and ethnically diverse places on the planet. It's estimated that one in every eight US families had relatives pass through Brooklyn when settling in the country. Over the past five years, Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb have captured a profound and vibrant portrait of this New York City borough through their photography.

Alex Webb has explored every corner of the borough, documenting its tremendous diversity, in a style that echoes his work from the past forty years, where he travelled the world to photograph various cultures. This is where he now calls home. In contrast, Rebecca Norris Webb focused on "the city within the city within the city," particularly the green heart of Brooklyn— the Botanic Garden, Greenwood Cemetery, and Prospect Park. These spaces are where Brooklynites from all backgrounds intersect as they seek solace.

Together, their photographs in Brooklyn, The City Within tell a larger American story, touching on themes of immigration, identity, and home.

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“(The Webbs) have brought together their greatest images in a new book called Brooklyn: The City Within.” — The Guardian

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781597114561

Publisher: Aperture

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 26 September 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Aperture

Illustration: 85 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

  • Photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb
  • Interviewer Sean Corcoran

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 224.0mm

Height: 290.0mm

Weight: 1420g

Pages: 208

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Alex Webb Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Photography Books

About the Author

Alex Webb has published more than fifteen books, including Memory City (2014, with Rebecca Norris Webb), La Calle: Photographs from Mexico (Aperture, 2016), as well as a survey of his color work, The Suffering of Light (Aperture, 2011). Webb became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1979. His work has been shown widely, and he has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. Rebecca Norris Webb, originally a poet, often explores the complicated relationship between people and the natural world in her seven books, including The Glass Between Us (2006), Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba (2009, with Alex Webb), and My Dakota (2012). A 2019 NEA grant recipient, she has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among other museums. Sean Corcoran is the curator of prints and photographs at the Museum of the City of New York and has written extensively on photography, including essays for Elliott Erwitt: At Home and Around the World (Aperture, 2016), and I See a City: Todd Webb's New York (2017).

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