Sutphin Lecture: “TWO LOOKS” The Photographs of Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb

Friday, Oct. 4 at 6 – 7:30 p.m.
UIndy Hall A
L/P Credit Available
This event is free and open to the public. This Sutphin Lecture is hosted by UIndy’s Department of Art & Design and affiliated with Aurora PhotoCenter in Indianapolis, IN.

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Poet and photographer Rebecca Norris Webb and Magnum photographer Alex Webb have published more than 20 books together and apart. The creative couple will show a selection of work from both their individual and collaborative projects, including their first joint Radius book, Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba, Alex’s recent Aperture book, Dislocations, and Rebecca’s University of Indianapolis exhibition and accompanying Radius book, Night Calls, in which she retraced the route of some of her 100-plus-year-old doctor father’s house calls through the same rural county where they both were born—Rush County, Indiana. A Q&A and book signing will follow.

Rebecca Norris Webb (b. Rushville, Indiana, 1956) often interweaves her text and photographs in her nine books, most notably with her monograph, My Dakota—an elegy for her brother who died unexpectedly—with a solo exhibition of the work at The Cleveland Museum of Art in 2015. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Le Monde, National Geographic, and is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cleveland Museum of Art, and George Eastman Museum, Rochester, N.Y. An NEA grant recipient, Norris Webb’s upcoming 10^th book, A Difficulty Is a Light (Chose Commune, Fall 2024) will coincide with an Alessia Paladini Gallery exhibition in Milan. She’s currently working on an ongoing project in the Dakotas, Badlands, as well as the upcoming book, Glimmerings, a selection of some three decades of her lyrical photographs.

Alex Webb (b. San Francisco, 1952) has published more than 15 books, including The Suffering of Light, a survey book of 30 years of his color photographs. He’s exhibited at museums worldwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y., the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A Magnum Photos member since 1979, his work has appeared in TheNew York Times Magazine, Geo, National Geographic, Vogue, and other publications. Webb has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. Some of his most recent books include La Calle: Photographs from Mexico (Aperture, 2016) and two collaborative books, Brooklyn: The City Within (Aperture, 2019) and Waves (Radius, 2022) with Rebecca Norris Webb. His most recent Aperture book, Dislocations, was released in fall 2023. He’s currently working on an ongoing project on U.S. cities.