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Amazon: From the Floodplains to the Clouds [Hardcover]

Alex Webb (Author)
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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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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A sensitive photographer with a great eye, February 9, 2000
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Gerardine Vargas (San Luis Obispo, CA) - See all my reviews
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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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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Book, January 8, 2001
This review is from: Amazon: From the Floodplains to the Clouds (Hardcover)
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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