Alex Webb: La Calle: Photographs from Mexico

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La Calle brings together more than thirty years of photography from the streets of Mexico by Alex Webb, spanning 1975 to 2007. Whether in black and white or color, Webb’s richly layered and complex compositions touch on more than one genres. As Geoff Dyer writes, Wherever he goes, Webb at all times leads to a Bermuda-shaped triangle where the distinctions between photojournalism, documentary, and art blur and disappear. Webb’s ability to distill gesture, light, and cultural tensions into single, beguiling frames leads to evocative images that convey a sense of mystery, irony, and humor.
Following an initial commute within the mid-1970s, Webb returned often to Mexico, working intensely at the U.S.–Mexico border and into southern Mexico during the 1980s and ’90s, inspired by what poet Octavio Paz calls Mexicanism―delight in decorations, carelessness and pomp, negligence, passion, and reserve. La Calle presents a commemoration of the Mexican street as a sociopolitical bellwether―albeit one that has undergone significant transformation since Webb’s first trips to the country. Newly commissioned pieces from noted Mexican and Mexican American authors lend further insight into the roles the streets have played for generations: part arterial network, part historical palimpsest, and part absurdist theater of the on a regular basis.

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