Fine Print: Tehuantepec, Mexico, 1985 warehouse collection poster Mexico on his last day

Mexico on his last day photographing families near the train tracks

observations

there was always a levee between the river and me as well

with scores of magazine and book covers

Fine Print: Tehuantepec, Mexico, 1985 warehouse collection poster Mexico on his last dayWebb began his career as a photographer in the 1970s, making pictures of the American social landscape in the streets of New England and New York, working exclusively in black and white. In the preface to The Suffering of Light, he describes having reached a kind of dead end in photography, as well as an eagerness to explore new territories. That year, in 1975, inspired by Graham Greenes novel, The Comedians, he jumped on a plane to Port au Prince to