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Gathers photographs taken in Haiti, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Barbados, India, Zaire, Ivory Coast, Uganda, and Trinidad
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Seventy-six surrealistic postcards stun the viewer with crisp beauty: a fierce contrast between inner and outer worlds. People of this tropical vision are frozen in decisive moments, barely animating textured architectural still-lifes and sunset webbed shadows. Echoes of human forms create a pictorial time warp similar to that in Egyptian friezes. Color is intense, composition is tight, and imagery is a multi-leveled hyperbole for human desperation. Superbly printed on heavy matte stock, with a short quote from Carlos Fuentes's Hydra Head serving as the only introduction. Webb is a freelance photojournalist who has published in Geo, Time and other magazines.
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These photographs by a young Magnum photojournalist were taken in various countries of the Third WorldGrenada, Mexico, Zaire, the Dominican Republic, Egyptbut all seem to be of one and the same place. Full of marvelous color, both muted and brilliant, bright and pastel, they are anything but romantic. Webb's use of color and his compositional style, with its sharp lines and divisive planes, combine to create tension within the frame. He presents a view of the Third World as a fragmented place where people are disconnected, cut off from each other. His harsh, painful pictures capture both the natural beauty and the human desperation that coexist in much of the world. Recommended for serious photography collections. Frank Schroth, Technology Training Associates, Cambridge, Mass.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition, First Printing. Thames and Hudson, 1986. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First edition, First Printing. . Oblong 4to., 93 pages witnh 76 full-page color photos featuring images taken by Webb over a period of ten years as he worked on assignments as a photo-journalist in Mexico, the Caribbean Islands, Africa, and Asia. He captured the cultural diversity, and economic desparation,as well as the beauty of the world's tropics. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Fine dust jacket with light rubbing to panels and edges. Seller Inventory # 5714
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Alex Webb (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st. Edition, 1st. Printing 1986, Hardcover with the dust jacket, 96 page book. With 76 full page color plates by Alex Webb.A gripping photographic work by this award winning acclaimed photographer.Condition : Near Fine very light edge runs and light dent at the back board. Dust jacket is Near Fine with scratch on the back side and a repair small rip at the front bottom corner , now in a clear dust jacket cover. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 021525-H
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Color photos; Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall; 96 pages; 1986 Thames & Hudson. Oversize oblong format HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and fresh in publisher's black boards lettered in white. Color pictorial dust jacket sharp-edged and uniformly bright, with publisher's $35 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Contents bright and clean with no marks. Whisper of shelf evidence to board tips; mild chafing to jacket surfaces. Webb's vivid, color-saturated images from the Caribbean and Latin America are handsomely reproduced. Sharp, clean copy. NF/NF. Seller Inventory # 57975
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