Alex Webb: Dislocations

Newly reimagined edition of Alex Webb’s now-classic and long out-of-print Dislocations

Dislocations presents a contemporary update of Alex Webb’s long out-of-print and highly sought title, first published in 1998 as an experiment in alternative book making. This newly reimagined edition brings together pictures from the many disparate locations over Webb’s oeuvre, meditating on the act of photography as a form of dislocation in itself.

Webb returned to the idea of dislocation during the pandemic, looking at images produced in the twenty years since the original publication--as well as looking back at that first edition. Dislocations expands a prized limited edition with unpublished images that speak to today’s sense of displacement. As a series of pictures that would have been impossible to create in a world dominated by closed borders and disrupted travel, it continues to resonate as the world resets.

Garnette Cadogan is an essayist and journalist who focuses on history, culture, and the arts. He is editor-at-large for Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas and coeditor of the Oxford Handbook of the Harlem Renaissance. He has received research fellowships from Yale University, the University of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, and New York University, where he is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge.