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Alex Webb: Walking Blues
Magnum photographer Alex Webb's bold-colour street pictures from some forty US cities, shaped by the rhythm of blues music over more than a decade.
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Preview: written before the show opened
Children play in a downtown fountain in Erie, Pennsylvania, and a rainbow arcs through the spray. Alex Webb took that picture in 2010, at the start of a series he kept shooting until 2025 across some forty American cities, from El Paso and St. Louis to Philadelphia's Chinatown.
The gallery hangs a selection of prints from Webb's new Aperture book of the same name. Webb, a Magnum member since 1979, credits the "lift and pull" of blues music, and the pictures play to his long-standing strengths: bold colour, rhythm and chance encounters. You get small cities like Erie and Fort Wayne next to New Orleans and New York, seen from the sidewalk rather than the skyline.
Entry is free, Wednesday to Sunday, closed Monday and Tuesday. Webb talks with Rebecca Norris Webb at the School of Visual Arts on 8 December, and the book costs $60.
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Erie, Pennsylvania, 2010
Look for kids playing in a downtown fountain while a rainbow arcs through the spray, one child with hands raised and another lying on the wet ground.
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- Cheap Culture
- Rainy Days
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- Alex Webb: Walking BluesCourtesy of Aperture
- There Are No Words: Si Lewen's ParadeCourtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Krasner and Pollock: Past ContinuousCourtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- ApertureCourtesy of Aperture
- American Museum of Natural HistoryIngfbruno, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- The Metropolitan Museum of ArtHugo Schneider, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
- The Frick CollectionJim.henderson / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
- Neue Galerie New YorkFrancesca.hyanna19 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0