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Alex Webb

(American, born 1952)

Alex Webb

Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, 1992

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Alex Webb

Outskirt of Tijuana, B.C., 1995

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Alex Webb

Port au Prince, Haiti, 1987

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Alex Webb

Fort Sherman, Panama, 1999

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Alex Webb

Thessaloniki. Greece., 2003

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Alex Webb

Bombardopolis. Haiti., 1986

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Alex Webb

Boquillas, Coahuila, 1979

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Biography

Timeline

1952: Born in San Francisco, CA
1972: Apeiron Photography Workshops with Charles Harbutt, Millerton, New York, NY
1974: Bachelor of Arts, History and Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1979: Member of Magnum Photos
1980: Overseas Press Club Award
1986: New York State Council on the Arts Grant
1988: Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Award
1990: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
: W. Eugene Smith Foundation Grant
1998: Hasselblad Foundation
2000: Leica Medal of Excellence
2002: David Octavius Hill Medaille
2007: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
2008: Lucca Photo Festival Award

Exhibitions

2008: Disposable People, Southbank Center, London, UK
: Presumed Innocence, Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
: Alex Webb Fotografie, Villa Bottini. Lucca, Italy (solo)
: Color: The Suffering of Light, Vinzavod Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (solo)
: The View from Here, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ (solo)
2007: Istanbul, MAC Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey; Sepia International, New York, NY; Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA; Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
: Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2006: Webbworks, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
: Crossings, Nordic Light, Kristiansund, Norway; Abertstwyth Arts Centre, Aberstwyth, Wales; Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Ireland (solo)
: Viajeros, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
: Moving Walls, Esperando, Open Society Institute, New York, NY (solo)
: Yours Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
2005: Crossings, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL (solo)
2004: Wate, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY
: Periplus, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece (Museum of Photography, Thessalonika, Greece, Onassis Foundation, New York, NY)
: Esperando, Ricco/Maresca Gallery. New York, NY (solo)
: Crossings, Sala de Exposiciones de Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2003: Crossings: Photographs from the U.S.-Mexico Border, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA (solo)
: Haiti, University of California, Sacramento, CA (solo)
: Common Ground: Photographers on the Street, McMullen Museum, Chesnut Hill, MA
: The Light of the Street, German Academy of Photography, Leinfelden, Germany (solo)
: Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA (solo)
2002: Anniversary, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001: Sept 11, 2001, Magnum group, New York Historical Society, New York, NY
: Here is New York, Prince Street, New York, NY
2000: Haiti, Open Society, New York, NY (solo)
: Panama, Leica Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1999: Under a Grudging Sun and Beyond, Internationale Fototage Herten (solo)
: Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ (solo)
1998: Amazon, Leica Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Caraibes, Cite du Livre, Aix en Provence, France (solo)
: ABACA exhibition, Bohen Foundation, New York, NY
: India: A Celebration of Independence, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: Haiti Libere , Neurologisches Therapiecentrum, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1997: US-Mexico Border, FotoMassan, Gothenburg, Sweden (solo)
1996: Picturing the South: Artist Project, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (solo)
: From the Sunshine State, Leica Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1995: Civilians in War, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
: Mexico, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: From Mexico, Drew University Photography Gallery, Madison, NJ (solo)
1992: L'Espace National, Bayonne, France (solo)
: Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy (solo)
1991: Focale Gallery, Nyons, Switzerland (solo)

Public Collections

: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
: Getty Center for the Arts and Humanities, Santa Monica, CA
: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
: Fuji Museum, Japan
: Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia, Torino, Italy
: Fogg Museum of Art, Cambridge, MA
: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan College, Middleton, CO
: Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, ME
: Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
: Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: International Center of Photography, New York, NY
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
: Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Hasselblad Foundation, Goteborg, Sweden
: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Literature

2007: Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names, Aperture, New York
2003: Alex Webb Habla Con Max Kozloff, La Fabrica, Spain
: Crossings: Photographs from the U.S.-Mexico Border, Monacelli Press, USA
1998 - 1999: Dislocations, Film Study Center at Harvard University, USA
1997: Amazon: From the Floodplains to the Clouds, Monacelli Press, Inc., USA
1996: From The Sunshine State, Monacelli Press, Inc., USA
1989: Under a Grudging Sun: Photographs from Haiti Libere, Thames & Hudson, USA
1986: Hot Light/Half-Made Worlds: Photographs from the Tropics, Thames & Hudson, USA

Alex Webb

(American, born 1952)

Alex Webb

Alex Webb

Alex Webb

Alex Webb

Alex Webb

Alex Webb

Alex Webb

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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