Alex Webb: Istanbul City of a Hundred Names

"Istanbul City of a Hundred Names," a photo book by Magnum Photos photographer Alex Webb, depicts in vivid color the multi-layered and contradictory landscape of Istanbul, a city located on the border between Europe and Asia.
Webb began his career in the late 1970s and joined Magnum Photos in 1976. He has continued to capture the "borderlands" where cultures intersect, using complex compositions and rich colors.
This book is the result of countless walks, observations, and waiting in Istanbul since the author's first visit in 1998, and it captures the dynamics of a city where ancient and modern, religious and secular, East and West collide.
Minarets and doves, calls to prayer and ATMs - the everyday life of a city that is constantly changing while rooted in history - is brought to life through a tense screen composition that is unique to the web.
This photo book delves into the essence of Istanbul, looking deeply at the city, its people, and how they live together.

[Title] Istanbul City of a Hundred Names ( Istanbul - The City of a Hundred Names
[Publisher] Aperture
[Publication date] 2007
[Number of pages] 136 pages
[Size] 310*258*18mm, approx. 1278g
[Format] Hardcover
[Language] English
[Title reading] Istanbul City of a Handed Names
[Author/Editor, etc.] Alex Webb/Author
[Print] -
[ISBN] 9781597110341
[Condition] Used [ 6 ] Above average to average (cover slightly wrinkled at top and bottom, slight stains at top)
[Accessories] None
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Alex Webb (1952-)

Born in San Francisco, California, USA in 1952. Currently lives in New York.
He became interested in photography during high school and attended the Apeiron Workshop in Millerton, New York in 1972, where he met Magnum photographers such as Bruce Davidson and Charles Harbutt. He majored in history and literature at Harvard University, while also studying photography at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, graduating in 1974.

He began working as a photojournalist in 1974. He joined Magnum Photos as a nominee that same year, became an associate in 1976, and a full member in 1979. In his early days, he photographed small towns in the American South in black and white, but in the late 1970s, he switched to color photography after reporting in the Caribbean and Mexico. Since then, he has established a style characterized by colorful street photography with strong light and shadow and complex layered structures.

He has a strong interest in border regions and the intersections of cultures, and continues to capture the tension and poetry inherent in people's lives and places in Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States, Turkey, etc. His basic approach to photography is to "walk, look, wait," and he is known for his compositions that combine chance with a sophisticated sense of composition.

His major photo books include Hot Light/Half-Made Worlds (1986), Under a Grudging Sun (1989), Crossings (2003), Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names (2007), The Suffering of Light (2011), and La Calle (2016). He has co-authored with his wife, photographer Rebecca Norris-Webb, Violet Isle (2009), Memory City (2014), Slant Rhymes (2017), Brooklyn: The City Within (2019), and Waves (2022).

He received the Leopold Godowsky Color Photography Award in 1988 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. His work has been exhibited at numerous museums across Europe and the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His work has also been published in publications such as National Geographic, TIME, and The New York Times Magazine.

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