Todd Webb in Africa

Todd Webb (1905–2000) was an American photographer active from the late 1930s to the 1980s whose work has attained an important place in the annals of American photographic history. Previous books on Todd Webb include I See A City, also published by Thames & Hudson. Aimée Bessire is Professor of African art history and cultural studies at Bates College in Maine. She has co-curated exhibitions including ‘The Art of Identity: African Sculpture from the Teel Collection’ (Fogg Museum, Harvard 1996) and ‘Convulsive Beauty: The Impact of Surrealism on American Art’ (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1988). Erin Hyde Nolan is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Maine College of Art, where she teaches the history of photography and visual culture. She was the manager of the Todd Webb Archive from 2010 to 2015.

• Introduction: Aimée Bessire and Erin Hyde Nolan'Lost and Found: Rediscovering Todd Webb’s Photographs of Africa', Betsy Evans Hunt'Todd Webb’s African Itinerary: Historical Synopsis of the African Countries Visited by Todd Webb in 1958', Jan-Lodewijk GrootaersTOGOLAND (TOGO)Plate Section: TogoA Snapshot of the Togoland (Togo) Election, 1958, Aimée BessireThe Myth of Africa, Aimée BessireEyewitnesses to History: African Photographers in Togo and Ghana (1880–1960), Christraud M. GearyGHANAPlate Section: GhanaJames Barnor on Photography in Ghana in the 1950s, James Barnor in conversation with Aimée BessireSeeing in Color: Todd Webb’s Color Photography and the United Nations Commission, Aimée BessireSUDANPlate Section: SudanLand/scaping: Todd Webb’s Representations of the Changing Topography of Africa, Erin Hyde NolanSOMALILAND (SOMALIA)Plate Section: SomaliaTodd Webb’s Excursions into Somalia, Ali Jimale AhmedFEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND(Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe)Plate Section: Federation of Rhodesia and NyasalandYesterday Today Tomorrow Bush—Shooting in the Federation, Gary van WykOf Color: Todd Webb’s Images of Africa in the American Civil Rights Era, Casey RileyTANGANYIKA, ZANZIBAR (Tanzania) AND KENYA(TANZANIA AND KENYA)Plate Section: Tanganikya, Zanzibar, and KenyaListening to Todd Webb’s Images of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, Rehema ChachageMileage from Here: Nine Narratives, Emmanuel IdumaEndnotes • United Nations Images with Captions • United Nations Brochure • Bibliography • Author Biographies

'Extraordinary' - Guardian