ALEX WEBB - ERIE PENNSYLVANIA SIGNED PHOTO - MAGNUM SQUARE PRINT LIMITED EDITION

Description: This is a rare, signed Alex Webb print which was sold during the Magnum Photos/Vogue Magazine “Solidarity” Print Sale in July 2020. Condition: Brand New/Mint. The print is HAND SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on an archival quality text label affixed to the back of the print. Magnum Square Prints are printed on Fuji Crystal archive paper and come in an archival and protective sleeve. All prints are archival quality and are approved by the photographer. Magnum worked closely with photographers and estates to ensure that all editions were presented according to their intentions. The print was issued in an un-numbered Limited Edition (limited to the number of prints purchased during the 7 days in which the sale was open to the public). It is sure to become a highly collectible photograph given the provenance linking it directly to the Magnum Photos collective and to the photographer. Artist: ALEX WEBB Work: Erie, Pennsylvania, 2010. From the book ‘The Suffering of Light’. Printed 2020. “For some 35 years, I wandered the world-in particular the Caribbean and Latin America— photographing far from my New England roots. However, taking pictures in Erie, Pennsylvania and Rochester, New York, about 10 years ago made me realize that I needed to return to my own complicated country and take a closer look. So for the past seven years, I've explored the streets of American cities, photographing from Atlanta to Pittsburgh to Galveston, Texas, and beyond.” — Alex Webb, 2021 Chromogenic print on Fuji Crystal Archive Matte photo paper Paper: 6 x 6 in (152 x 152 mm), image: 3.7 in tall x 5.5 in wide (93 x 140 mm) Signed by the artist verso on an archival label that includes the image's accompanying text. Un-numbered, time-limited Magnum Square Print edition. The edition is not limited by quantity, but limited by time. This Square Print was only available for purchase for less than a week in July 2020. Magnum Square Prints are printed on Fuji Crystal archive paper, which minimizes fading. The accompanying text labels as well as all supporting materials are archival, meaning that they are acid-free and will not damage the print or affect its longevity. The usual precautions should be taken to retain a photograph's depth of tone and contrast, and we recommend that a photograph should not be hung in direct, continuous sunlight. Print is in Mint Condition. Artist's Statement: "I keep returning to these words of James Baldwin, which seem as apt today as when he wrote them nearly sixty years ago: ‘Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.’*” - Alex Webb * James Baldwin quote from the essay, "As Much Truth as One Can Bear," The New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1962 Artist Bio: Under any rubric, Alex Webb is a photojournalist, yet his work transcends the typical standards of the genre. Webb ventures to places that are unlikely candidates for street photography, places that he feels contain intriguing sociopolitical tensions and clashes of culture. For 30 years, Webb has captured images across the world that are humorous and enigmatic documentations of life in the streets—often, unpaved—which greatly differ from his private New England upbringing. After receiving his bachelor's degree in history and literature alongside photography study at Harvard, Webb became an associate member of Magnum Photos in 1976 and practiced street photography in New York. Inspired by Graham Greene's book The Comedians set in Haiti, Webb began traveling throughout the Caribbean and border towns of Mexico, switching between black-and-white and color film. Webb has exhibited at museums worldwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y., and the Guggenheim Museum, N.Y. Alex became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1979. He has received numerous awards and grants including a Hasselblad Foundation Grant in 1998, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, and National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1990 and 2019 (the latter with with wife and creative partner, poet and photographer Rebecca Norris Webb).

Price: 349.99 CAD

Location: Toronto, Ontario

End Time: 2024-10-27T05:10:16.000Z

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