Memory City - Alex Webb (Hardcover)
Description
For this project, the author took photographs of Rochester, New York, with his last rolls of Kodachrome, a formerly vibrant colour film that can now only be processed as black-and-white. This book deals with his works.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 9780500544327
- Department
- Books
- Released
- 23 Jun 2014
- Supply Source
- UK
Book
- Authors
- Alex Webb
Rebecca Norris Webb
- Subtitle
- The Fading Days of Film
- Binding
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Language
- English
- Number of Pages
- 132
- Dimensions
- 310 x 255 x 20mm (1.49kg)
Summary
For this project, Alex Webb took photographs of Rochester, New
York, with his last rolls of Kodachrome, a formerly vibrant colour
film that can now only be processed as black-and-white. The
resulting photographs, taken during what may be the last days of
film as we know it, are a meditation on film, memory, time and the
city itself; they have a weathered quality akin to a fading memory.
Alex also took some shots in digital colour, which punctuate the
black-and-white work with images in his signature style. Rebecca,
who still uses film for all her work, responded to the mediums
uncertain future by creating a melancholy refrain of colour
still-lifes and portraits of Rochester women past and present.
Non-Fiction
- General Subject
- Photography
- BISAC Subject 1
- Photography / Individual Photographers / General
- BISAC Subject 2
- Photography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
- BIC Classification 1
- Individual photographers
- BIC Classification 2
- Photographs: collections
- Dewey Classification
- 779.997471
- Readership
- General (US: Trade)
Author Bio
Alex Webb's photographs have appeared in a wide range of
publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Life, Stern
and National Geographic, and have been exhibited internationally.
He is a recipient of the Leica Medal of Excellence (2000) and the
Premio Internacional de Fotografia Alcobendas (2009), and has been
a member of Magnum Photos since 1976.