Published by La Fabrica in 2017, Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb: Slant Rhymes sets the work of two photographers into an intimate, reciprocal form. Alex Webb, the Magnum photographer, and Rebecca Norris Webb, a poet and photographer, draw on images made across nearly three decades of friendship, marriage, and creative partnership. The book is not a conventional dual-author survey: its central subject is the correspondence that can emerge between distinct photographic sensibilities over time.

Eighty photographs are arranged in pairs, one by Alex and one by Rebecca. Their relationship is deliberately oblique rather than illustrative. Images may meet through palette, tone, geometry, or an affinity for the surreal, surprising, and enigmatic, while remaining unmistakably different in register. The pairings make sequence an active element of meaning: each photograph alters the temperature and implication of the one beside it, and the conversation continues through short text pieces by the two artists. Alex Webb’s introduction further frames the book as an exchange conducted in “different keys”—a useful description of its restraint and its imaginative reach.

The result is deeply personal without becoming merely biographical. Photographs gathered from a long shared history are transformed into a structure of visual rhymes, where affection is expressed through attention, contrast, and the freedom to remain unresolved. The book’s significance lies in this unusual merging of photographic dialogue and lived collaboration: it presents a partnership not as a single style, but as sustained looking between two independent artists.

For collectors, Slant Rhymes deserves attention as a focused artists’ book rather than simply another monograph by a celebrated photographer. Its interest resides in the intelligence of the pairings, the tension between likeness and difference, and the way a long relationship becomes visible through editing. The English-language volume was issued by La Fabrica as a 112-page hardcover, making it a concise and coherent statement of the Webbs’ shared photographic practice.