Alex Webb: Istanbul (Hardcover)
City of a Hundred Names
Product Details
- Barcode
- 9781597110341
- Department
- Books
- Released
- 1 May 2007
- Supply Source
- UK
Book
- Subtitle
- City of a Hundred Names
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Distributed Art Pub Inc
- Language
- English
- Number of Pages
- 135
- Dimensions
- 254 x 311 x 19mm (1.27kg)
Summary
In "Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names," Magnum photographer Alex
Webb displays his particular ability to distill gesture, color and
contrasting cultural tensions into a single, beguiling frame. He
presents a vision of Istanbul as an urban cultural center, rich
with the incandescence of its past--a city of minarets and pigeons
rising to the heavens during the early-morning call to Muslim
prayers--yet also a city riddled with ATM machines and clothed in
designer jeans. Webb began photographing Istanbul in 1998, and
became instantly enthralled: by the people, the layers of culture
and history, the richness of street life. But what particularly
drew him in was a sense of Istanbul as a border city, lying between
Europe and Asia. "For 30-some years as a photographer, I have been
intrigued by borders, places where cultures come together,
sometimes easily, sometimes roughly." The resulting body of work,
some of Webb's strongest to date, conveys the frisson of a culture
in transition, yet firmly rooted in a complex history. With essay
by the Nobel Prize winning novelist, Orhan Pamuk.
Non-Fiction
- General Subject
- Photo Techniques
- BISAC Subject 1
- Photography / Individual Photographers / General
- BISAC Subject 2
- Photography / Photojournalism
- BISAC Subject 3
- Photography / Photojournalism
- BIC Classification 1
- Individual photographers
- BIC Classification 2
- Places & peoples: general & pictorial works
- BIC Classification 3
- Photographs: collections
- Library Subject 1
- Istanbul (Turkey)
- Dewey Classification
- 949.61/80222
Author Bio
Alex Webb is best known for his vibrant and complex color
photography, often made in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has
published eleven books, including Violet Isle: A Duet of
Photographs from Cuba (with Rebecca Norris Webb) and The Suffering
of Light, a collection of thirty years of his color work. Alex
became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1979. His work has been
shown widely, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and at the High Museum of
Art, Atlanta. He's received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim
Fellowship in 2007. His work has appeared in the New York Times
Magazine, National Geographic, and GEO, among other publications.
Orhan Pamuk is the author of such novels as "The New Life," "The
Black Book," "My Name Is Red" and "The White Castle." He has won
numerous international awards, including the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 2006. He lives with his wife and daughter in
Istanbul.