- Hardcover: 204 pages
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson; first edition (31 May 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0500543976
- ISBN-13: 978-0500543979
- Product Dimensions: 33.3 x 31 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 303,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'An epic and stunning picture book from one of the world's best photojournalists'
--Traveller
`Colour-bright, intriguingly composed wonders, full of life and awe'
--Harper's Bazaar
'Shows how Webb's images find humour, sadness, politics and beauty on every corner'
--Metro
'An extraordinary collection of images ... Webb is a sympathetic observer whose work presents an entire world-view' --Time Out
'The first book to truly explore Webb's 30-year career in depth ... a thorough exploration of Webb's work and well-worth its price tag'
--Amateur Photographer
--Traveller
`Colour-bright, intriguingly composed wonders, full of life and awe'
--Harper's Bazaar
'Shows how Webb's images find humour, sadness, politics and beauty on every corner'
--Metro
'An extraordinary collection of images ... Webb is a sympathetic observer whose work presents an entire world-view' --Time Out
'The first book to truly explore Webb's 30-year career in depth ... a thorough exploration of Webb's work and well-worth its price tag'
--Amateur Photographer
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Gathering some of Alex Webbs most iconic images, many of which were taken in the far corners of the earth, The Suffering of Light brings a fresh perspective to his extensive catalogue. Recognized as a pioneer of American colour photography, Webb has since the 1970s consistently created photographs characterized by intense colour and light. His work, with its richly layered and complex composition, touches on multiple genres, including street photography, photojournalism and fine art, but as Webb claims, to me it all is photography. You have to go out and explore the world with a camera. Webbs ability to distil gesture, colour and contrasting cultural tensions into single, beguiling frames results in evocative images that convey a sense of enigma, irony and humour. Featuring key works alongside previously unpublished photographs, The Suffering of Light is Webbs first comprehensive monograph and provides the most thorough examination to date of this modern masters prolific, thirty-year career.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I hope maybe to write something more later but for now just a quick review as Im so impressed with this book, which I just got for my birthday
( I requested it as it came up on Amazon's 'recommended' - the cover got me interested and as I already had his 'Istanbul' book which I found cheap whilst browsing in a bookshop - I got it ordered and eagerly looked forward to seeing whether it lived up to expectations)
It did!. :)
This has to be my all time favourite colour street photog book ever, maybe my all time favourite photo book ever ( and Ive got a few!). I have never enjoyed turning the pages of a photo book so much, the anticipation, excitement and ensuing smile and simple joy brought at the turn of nearly every page had me mentally jumping for joy and catching my breath at the physical sensuality of the rich colours and intricate, almost maze-like, compositions.
He reminds me of and is equal to Steve Mc Curry and William Eggleston for colour, is reminiscent of Ray K Metzker and Lee Friedlander for novel and intricate compositions, certainly equals HCB for decisive moments, and really shows Martin Parr up a treat ( eat your heart out Martin!), - absolutely great!, I have never seen better; in fact, never seen as good.
And thank fully the quality of the book is right up there with the best, the paper, cover, and the colour reproduction are top notch
It's such a treat to discover someone you really should have known a long time ago. Thanks go to Alex, for putting this book together:)
( I requested it as it came up on Amazon's 'recommended' - the cover got me interested and as I already had his 'Istanbul' book which I found cheap whilst browsing in a bookshop - I got it ordered and eagerly looked forward to seeing whether it lived up to expectations)
It did!. :)
This has to be my all time favourite colour street photog book ever, maybe my all time favourite photo book ever ( and Ive got a few!). I have never enjoyed turning the pages of a photo book so much, the anticipation, excitement and ensuing smile and simple joy brought at the turn of nearly every page had me mentally jumping for joy and catching my breath at the physical sensuality of the rich colours and intricate, almost maze-like, compositions.
He reminds me of and is equal to Steve Mc Curry and William Eggleston for colour, is reminiscent of Ray K Metzker and Lee Friedlander for novel and intricate compositions, certainly equals HCB for decisive moments, and really shows Martin Parr up a treat ( eat your heart out Martin!), - absolutely great!, I have never seen better; in fact, never seen as good.
And thank fully the quality of the book is right up there with the best, the paper, cover, and the colour reproduction are top notch
It's such a treat to discover someone you really should have known a long time ago. Thanks go to Alex, for putting this book together:)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
We learn more here about seeing in colour, composition and timing than any one-on-one class could ever give us. This retrospective reveals Alex Webb to have operated on at least the same level as Cartier-Bresson, if not exceeding him in places by adding colour to the information he has mastered in each frame. When I selected a book to teach my young niece about what makes a great photograph, I reached for this first. A bargain and a treasure.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Alex Webb is a representative of a kind of documentary photography that, if not dominant, certainly has become a substantial sector of the genre in the past twenty or thirty years. Traditionally, the photojournalist would rock up to whatever world situation was of interest to the magazine and news publishing industry and provide a visual commentary that was supposed to illuminate the subject, often a subject that the photographer had limited experience of or cultural reference to. Alex Webb by comparison, is a photographer making work as a personal response to the situation; very visual, exploratory rather than explanatory. A photographer who uses atmosphere, extremes of light and edgy composition to provide a subjective impression that doesn't pretend to tell us 'what is happening' yet gives us a notion of what it was like to be Alex Webb in those situations: discovering the subject with its uncertainties and tensions, using the camera to tell us as much or as little as photography, with both its strengths and limitations, can.
A true colour stylist like fellow Magnum photographers Harry Gruyaert and Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Webb's book is a welcome addition to my bookshelf as I don't have the books that first enticed me (Under a Grudging Sun and Hot Light - Half-Made Worlds) into his visual world. A must-have for any appreciator of documentary photography.
A true colour stylist like fellow Magnum photographers Harry Gruyaert and Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Webb's book is a welcome addition to my bookshelf as I don't have the books that first enticed me (Under a Grudging Sun and Hot Light - Half-Made Worlds) into his visual world. A must-have for any appreciator of documentary photography.
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