Todd Webb in Africa

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 Grootaers

TOGOLAND (TOGO)
Plate Section: Togo
A Snapshot of the Togoland (Togo) Election, 1958, Aimée Bessire
The Myth of Africa, Aimée Bessire
Eyewitnesses to History: African Photographers in Togo and Ghana (1880-1960), Christraud M. Geary

GHANA
Plate Section: Ghana
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
Plate Section: Sudan
Land/scaping: Todd Webb's Representations of the Changing Topography of Africa, Erin Hyde Nolan

SOMALILAND (SOMALIA)
Plate Section: Somalia
Todd Webb's Excursions into Somalia, Ali Jimale Ahmed

FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND
(Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe)
Plate Section: Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
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 (Tanzania) AND KENYA
(TANZANIA AND KENYA)
Plate Section: Tanganikya, Zanzibar, and Kenya
Listening to Todd Webb's Images of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, Rehema Chachage
Mileage from Here: Nine Narratives, Emmanuel Iduma

Endnotes . United Nations Images with Captions . United Nations Brochure . Bibliography . Author Biographies

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.

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