 When Alex Webb first walked across the bridge from El Paso to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in 1975, he was a 23-year-old hotshot photographer. He had just become a nominee to the esteemed Magnum photo collective and was already noted for his alienated black-and-white images capturing the American social landscape.
Mexico transformed him, and for the next three years, he returned to the border area often to make lyrical black-and-white images that explored the blending and clashing of cultures. To him, Mexico was so close to the United States but so fundamentally different. To continue reading, click here. Comments are closed.
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