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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bessire, Aimée, author.

Nolan, Erin Hyde, author.

Contributor:

Minneapolis Institute of Art, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Webb, Todd--Exhibitions.

Webb, Todd.

Documentary photography--Africa--Exhibitions.

Social conditions.

Documentary photography.

Africa--Social conditions--1945-1960--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

Africa.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition, pictorial works.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

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

Other Title:

Outside the frame

Place of Publication:

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

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.

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

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

Landscaping: Todd Webb's representations of a changing African topography / Erin Hyde Nolan

Trust Territory of Somaliland (Somalia)

Todd Webb's excursions into Somalia (or, Todd Webb in Somalia) / Ali Jimale Ahmed

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi)

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)

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.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Webb, Todd. Works. Selections.

ISBN:

9780500545393

0500545391

OCLC:

1222805762