Author: Webb, Alex (and) Rebecca Norris Webb
Title: Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb: Memory City
Description: Sante Fe, Radius Books, 2014. Hardcover. A matte hardcover book with white text down a gray spine. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated with color images. "Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb take an elegiac look at Rochester, New York. For this project, Alex took images with his last rolls of Kodachrome, a formerly vibrant color film that can now only be processed as black-and-white. The resulting photos have a weathered quality akin to a fading memory. Alex also took to the streets of Rochester and shot in digital color--work that punctuates the black and white work with images from his signature style. Rebecca, who still uses film for all her work, responded to the medium's uncertain future by creating an elegiac refrain of color still lifes and portraits of Rochester women past and present. Woven into the book are quotes by many of the famous writers and thinkers who have been connected to Rochester, including women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and poets John Ashbery and Ilya Kaminsky. And the authors have also created a timeline on the cultural history of the city that traces the evolution of a once-vibrant and now complex city. VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker at the base of the spine. There is a small tear in the surface of the spine that affects the text running down ti. Sticker on front free end page. Two stickers and a due date card on the back pasted end page.

Keywords: Photography ; Webb, Rebecca (and) Webb, Alex ; ;


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