Chicago Book Signing with Alex Webb

Join Aperture for a book signing and reception at Stephen Daiter Gallery on the occasion of Alex Webb’s latest release, Dislocations (Aperture, 2023). This book signing will take place during the run of the artist’s show Wanderings: Forty Years of Photographs in the U.S. by Alex Webb on view at Stephen Daiter September 8 through October 27.

Dislocations presents a contemporary update of Alex Webb’s long out-of-print 1998 book by the same name, which was first published by Harvard’s Film Study Center as an experiment in alternative book making. The book brought together pictures from the many disparate locations over Webb’s oeuvre, meditating on the act of photography as a form of dislocation in itself. Dislocations was instantly collectable and continues to be sought after today. Webb returned to the idea of dislocation during the pandemic, looking at images produced in the twenty years since the original publication—as well as looking back at that first edition. Dislocations expands a beloved limited edition with unpublished images that speak to today’s sense of displacement. As a series of pictures that would have been impossible to create in a world dominated by closed borders and disrupted travel, it continues to resonate as the world resets.

This event is presented in partnership with Stephen Daiter Gallery.

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Alex Webb (born in San Francisco, 1952) has published more than fifteen books, including Aperture titles Brooklyn: The City Within (2019, with Rebecca Norris Webb), La Calle: Photographs from Mexico (2016), On Street Photography and the Poetic Image (2014, with Rebecca Norris Webb), and a survey of his color work, The Suffering of Light (2011). Webb has been a full member of Magnum Photos since 1979. His work has been shown widely, and he has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007.

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Image: Alex Webb, Dallas, 1981; from Alex Webb: Dislocations (Aperture, 2023) © Alex Webb

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