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Amazon: From the Floodplains to the Clouds [Hardcover]

Alex Webb (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1, 1998

Alex Webb has made a name for himself with lushly colored images, a "decisive moment" sense of composition, and a photojournalist's sense of story. These images tracing the course of the Amazon, and those who reside alongside it, are filled with the tension of content and beauty that has made Webb's work so influential.

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Webb's best images capture the fluidity not only of the river but of the life along its banks. -- The New York Times Book Review, Lance Gould

Product Details

Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press; First Edition edition (January 1, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1885254776
ISBN-13: 978-1885254771
Product Dimensions: 12.2 x 10.9 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,384,062 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing journey up the Amazon, September 26, 1999

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These photographs aren't illustrations of "life along the Amazon" -- they're powerful, intricate images from a photographer with an incredible eye. Webb shows you the strange landscapes that lurk under the surface of normal life -- magical, disturbing, beautiful, elusive -- and as he takes you up the river there are new mysteries on every page. The further upriver you go, the more bleak and frightening those mysteries become. A fascinating book from a very unusual photographer.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A sensitive photographer with a great eye, February 9, 2000

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Mr. Webb's images reflect a sensitive photographer, a thinking photographer with a great eye. His graphic approach to documentary photography adds a wonderful artistic quality to the images.

The images bring me to the Amazon, the real Amazon with its beauty, danger, ugliness, etc.-- not the romanticized Amazon of just beautiful sceneries.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Book, January 8, 2001

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I showed this book to one of my photography instructors at the college I attend and we discussed how wonderful the use of color and composition is in Alex Webb's photography. He is an extremely insightful photographer. Many of the photos are so skillfully composed that they are almost like two or three photographs in one. This book is filled with "decisive moments" - similiar to Cartier-Bresson's approach to photography - but in beautiful color.

I'll never look at color photography in the same way after having seen Mr. Webb's work. I learned things from this book. And I am proud to own it.

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4.0 out of 5 stars GOOD NOT GREAT
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SERIOUSLY, FOR ALL THAT TIME AND ALL THAT FILM I THINK IT ISN'T THIS PHOTOGRAPHER'S BEST, ALTHOUGH IT'S PRETTY DAMN GOOD

Published on July 31, 2006 by cody raymond

5.0 out of 5 stars contemporary classic of color street work
this work is about light, color, composition, and one of the most interesting and mysterious places left on the planet. Read more

Published on July 24, 2006 by jack kerr

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This is not a nature book!

Please note that for all intents and purposes there is not a single nature photograph in this entire collection! Read more

Published on June 13, 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars A riveting collection of images.
Mr. Webb's powerful images take you to that place. I felt theheat and humidity, the lushness, the danger, the wonder and beauty,and the vastness of the Amazon--the same feelings... Read more

Published on January 28, 2000 by Jude Ignacio

5.0 out of 5 stars a sense of place
Alex's book succeeds in creating a sense of place that goes beyond the 'eye candy' which most books on such themes are limited to. Read more

Published on August 13, 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars More River, Less People
Pollution, poverty and a plague of people and animals are all richly illustrated. The river is mainly a backdrop.

Published on June 19, 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars Amazon Images
This book has some beautiful images of the great river that capture its vastness, heat, humidity and atmosphere. Read more

Published on April 7, 1999 by balimoon@worldnet.att.net

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First Sentence:
The Amazon River is many rivers. Read the first page

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This book cites 9 books:

The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa on page 7, and Back Matter
The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier on page 91, and Back Matter
Deep Rivers by Jose Maria Arguedas on page 119, and Back Matter
The Discovery of the Amazon by Jose Toribio Medina in Back Matter
The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates in Back Matter

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