Fine Print: Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, 1996 Size:20 x 30 in (50 x 76 cm) like Los Angeles itself

like Los Angeles itself

he received an invitation from Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa to join Magnum Photos

he soon turned his strong vision inward

Bruce Davidson’s classic essay Brooklyn Gang

its steel mills

Fine Print: Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, 1996 Size:20 x 30 in (50 x 76 cm) like Los Angeles itselfWebb 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