Slant rhymes

Alex Webb

Slant Rhymes is a photographic conversation between two world renowned authors, Magnum photographer Alex Webb and poet and photographer Rebecca Norris Webb. Selected from photographs taken during the Webbs's nearly 30-year friendship and later marriage and creative partnership, this group of 80 photographs are paired--one by Alex, one by Rebecca--to create a series of visual rhymes that talk to one another--often at a "slant" and in intriguing and revealing ways. "Sometimes we find our photographic slant rhymes share a similar palette or tone or geometry," writes Alex Webb in the introduction to the book. "Other times, our paired photographs strike a similar note--often a penchant for surreal or surprising or enigmatic moments--although often in two different keys." These photographs, most of which are published here for the first time, are interwoven with short text pieces by Rebecca...