Born in San Francisco, Webb was raised in New England. Webb first became interested in photography as a high school student and in 1972 attended the Apeiron Workshops in Millerton, New York, where he met Magnum photographers Bruce Davidson and Charles Harbutt. He went on to study history and literature at Harvard University, but also studied photography at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. By 1974 he was working as a photojournalist and in 1976 he became an associate member of Magnum Photos. During this time he documented small-town life in the American South. He also did some work in the Caribbean and Mexico, which led him, in 1978, to begin working in colour, which he has continued to do.
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Alex Webb is a photographer associated with Magnum Photos. He has had a number of books published, his main works being Hot Light/Half-Made Worlds, Under a Grudging Sun From The Sunshine State, Amazon Crossings, Istanbul and The Suffering of Light.
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