2008 prc benefit auction

7. Alex Webb
Yaviza, Panama, 2004, 2004/2008
C-Print, 8 1/2 x 13 inches
Donation print #2, Signed verso
Framing donated by Stanhope Framers
Courtesy of Artist
Retail Value: $1,100

Born in San Francisco in 1952, Alex Webb attended the Apeiron Workshops in 1972. Webb, a photojournalist with Magnum Photos, is best known for his edgy and often unsettling photography from the tropics. A history and literature major at Harvard University, he studied photography at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Webb received a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in 1986, NEA Fellowship in 1990, Hasselblad Foundation Grant in 1998, and Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. The recipient of numerous awards, he has won the Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Award (1988), the Leica Medal of Excellence (2000), and the David Octavius Hill award in (2002). He has published many books, including Crossings (2003) and most recently, Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names (2007), released by Aperture. He has shown his work in such museums as the Walker Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art.