Alex Webb


 Joe Seck

9/12/2022

Art 240

                                                                                                                    Alex Webb

    
    Alex Webb from what I saw is an expert in street photography with an amazing attention to detail for colors. He has photographed wonderful photos of the street life and culture of New York City, Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, and other countries. In the photo below taken in Tamaulipas Mexico, you see three things that really catch your eye. These being the center of the photo of the silhouette of a man holding a small child with what looks like a spotlight, this looks quite endearing to me, I don't really understand why. The other things in the photo that are interesting is on the right side of the picture of a man and a woman in a quite happy mood, at least the woman is you can see she is smiling while the man is in front of her. The other man in the picture is hiding his face with some kind of book that has the 49ers Football team on it. I thought it was interesting that this man hid his face from the camera. 


    
In the image above which was taken on September 11th 2001, is quite an haunting image of a mother trying to comfort her baby while in the background you see the smoke and dust from the terrorist attack that took place on that day. The baby in this photograph was around my age when the towers fell so I feel like this could have been what my mother was doing for me as this event that will never be forgotten took place. I find it interesting that Webb took a picture of these events during that time because I feel like I would have been way to scared to try and photograph what was happening.  














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