Research Catalog

Title

Todd Webb in Africa : outside the frame / Aimée Bessire and Erin Hyde Nolan.

Author

Webb, Todd

Publication

• London ; New York, New York : Thames and Hudson, 2021.
• ©2021

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Bessire, Aimée
• Nolan, Erin Hyde
• Minneapolis Institute of Art, host institution.

Description

255 pages : illustrations (some color), color map; 31 cm

Summary

Todd Webb is largely known for his skillful photographic documentation of everyday life and architecture in cities, most notably New York and Paris, as well as his photographs of the American West. This new book showcases a different side of Webb's work, taken from an assignment that took him to eight African countries in 1958, commissioned by the United Nations to photograph industrial progress in Africa. As Webb's first large-scale colour photographs, these images present complex constructions of race and cultural identity during the transitional moment between colonialism and independence on the African continent. The nearly 2000 images from the trip have never been exhibited or published in their original format.Rediscovered by the Todd Webb Archive in 2017, over 200 of these striking photographs are published here alongside contributions by both African and American scholars that engage the images in their historic and photographic moment.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

• Works.
• Outside the frame

Subject

• Webb, Todd > Exhibitions
• Webb, Todd
• 1945-1960
• Documentary photography > Africa > Exhibitions
• Documentary photography
• Social conditions
• Africa > Social conditions > 1945-1960 > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• Africa

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition, pictorial works.

Note

• Accompanies a touring exhibition of Webb's photographs, scheduled to first open at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, January 2-June 13, 2021.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Lost and found: rediscovering Todd Webb's photographs of Africa / Betsy Evans Hunt -- The United Nations itinerary for Todd Webb, 1958 -- A historical synopsis of the African countries visited by Todd Webb in 1958 / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers -- Togoland (Togo) -- Plates -- A snapshot of the Togoland (Togo) election, 1958 / Aimée Bessire -- The myth of Africa / Aimée Bessire -- Eyewitnesses to history: African professional photographers in Togo and Ghana, 1880-1960 / Christraud M. Geary --Ghana -- Plates -- James Barnor on photography in Ghana in the 1950s / James Barnor in conversation with Aimée Bessire -- Seeing in color: Todd Webb's color photography and the United Nations commission / Aimée Bessire -- Sudan -- Plates -- Landscaping: Todd Webb's representations of a changing African topography / Erin Hyde Nolan -- Trust Territory of Somaliland (Somalia) -- Plates -- Todd Webb's excursions into Somalia (or, Todd Webb in Somalia) / Ali Jimale Ahmed -- Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi) -- Plates -- Yesterday today tomorrow bush: shooting in the Federation / Gary van Wyk -- Of color: Todd Webb's images of Africa in the American civil rights era / Casey Riley -- Tanganyika, Zanzibar, and Kenya (Tanzania and Kenya) -- Plates -- Listening to Todd Webb's images of Tanganyika and Zanzibar / Rehema Chachage -- Mileage from here: nine narratives / Emmanuel Iduma -- United Nations images -- United Nations brochure.

Call Number

Sc+ G 21-44

ISBN

• 9780500545393
• 0500545391

OCLC

1222805762

Author

Webb, Todd, artist.

Title

Todd Webb in Africa : outside the frame / Aimée Bessire and Erin Hyde Nolan.

Publisher

London ; New York, New York : Thames and Hudson, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1945-1960

Added Author

Bessire, Aimée, author.

Nolan, Erin Hyde, author.

Minneapolis Institute of Art, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc+ G 21-44

JQG 22-12