Name: I.m. ruzz's review of Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image by Alex Webb
Item: Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image
Rating: 3
Author: I.m. ruzz

Alex Webb

Teju Cole

Rebecca Norris Webb

In this series, Aperture Foundation works with the worlds top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photographyoffering the workshop experience in a book. Our goal is to inspire photographers of all levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers interested in deepening their understanding of the art of photography. Each volume is introduced by a well-known student of the featured photographer. In this book, internationally acclaimed color photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, offer their expert insight into street photography and the poetic image. Through words and photographstheir own and othersthey invite the reader into the heart of their artistic processes. They share their thoughts about a wide range of practical and philosophical issues, from questions about seeing and being in the world with a camera, to how to shape a complete body of work in a way thats both structured and intuitive.

Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image

I.m. ruzz

You either love Alex Webb or you don't. I don't. His work, to me, seems overly complicated and too focused on being clever. That said, I discovered I liked his wife's work a great deal. It's emotive. it's seeking. It's about the feels. 

Even with her part of the book being sound and considerably good, this book claimed to be a workshop in a book and failed. or, perhaps, it was just a bad workshop.. but in book form. 

It read to me as more an advertisement for Webb's books. Practically every page makes mention of one of his books and I felt "okay, we get it, you have lots of books" but I'm reading one right now, so why not talk about what this book is about. 

He didn't. It wasn't. 

At least it had some pretty pictures in it.

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