A Street Photography Book You Must Buy: “The Suffering of Light” by Alex Webb

by Eric Kim on July 5, 2012

1x1.trans A Street Photography Book You Must Buy: The Suffering of Light by Alex Webb

Alex Webb’s recent book, “The Suffering of Light” is his seminal book encompassing his entire career shooting color street photography. During several decades he traveled across the world, primarily in Latin-American countries, using Kodachrome slide film to capture the intense color and light of the societies he visited. His images are full of life and are beautifully complex, and crosses many borders and dips into photojournalism and fine art as well.

If you love street photography and are especially drawn to color, definitely pick up a copy of “The Suffering of Light” today. It is definitely one of my top-10 favorite street photography books of all time.

Interested in learning more? Check out my blog post, “10 Things Alex Webb Can Teach You About Street Photography“.

What draws you most into Webb’s work? Share your thoughts about his work in the comments below! 

Tagged as: alex webb, the suffering of light

  • http://www.facebook.com/vincent.degroot.73 Vincent de Groot

    Thanks for the hint… I already had it standing there on my shelf… amazing work that shows to me that streets also can be in color…

  • Brian Day

    My favorite SP book, without a doubt. Gobsmackin’.

  • http://twitter.com/waleedalzuhair Waleed Alzuhair

    Wow, ships within 1 to 3 months at Amazon.. Can you suggest a good online store for international readers?

  • Robert

    One of my favorite books from my favorite photographer. Absolutely stunning images.

  • http://www.facebook.com/donahuememp James Donahue

    Great images and Presentation. Always glad to see ‘Street’ done in Color.

  • http://twitter.com/cwisemanphoto Chris Wiseman

    My eye is really drawn to his images which have a sense of chaos whether it be the subject matter or the composition but somehow through the harmony of the colors there is an overall calm brought to the image. This is an amazing book and really shows how a photographer is never truly done with a project or idea in a way a bookmark is put in it to be resumed at a later date. Great Book Suggestion Eric!!

  • chaosboi

    @twitter-31360238:disqus I have started using Book Depository, ships from UK and arrived in Australia generally within 5 business days. They offer free postage, although the postage price is built into the book price. Usually ends up same price as Amazon when postage factored into it, and also heaps faster.

    -and back on topic, love this Alex Webb book, it’s huge and FULL of awesome, inspiring photographs. Hours of viewing pleasure.

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