1. Todd Webb was an American photographer notable for documenting everyday life and architecture in cities such as New York City, Paris as well as from the American west.
15 Facts About Todd Webb
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Todd Webb traveled extensively during his long life and had important friendships with artists such as Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Harry Callahan.
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Todd Webb returned to Detroit and studied at the Detroit Camera Club.
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Todd Webb made key friendships with Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe as well as Beaumont Newhall, Berenice Abbott, Helen Levitt, and Minor White.
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Todd Webb began a remarkable project of walking the streets of New York City with his heavy camera and tripod and photographing people and buildings he encountered.
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In one photograph, Todd Webb went to the top of the RCA Building and shot south using a backlit technique, which captured the Empire State Building at night.
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In 1947, Todd Webb was hired by Fortune magazine and he worked with professional photographers funded by the Standard Oil Company led by Roy Stryker and the group included notable photographers such as Sol Libsohn.
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Todd Webb traveled to Paris, France, in 1949 and married fellow American Lucille Minqueau.
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In Paris, Todd Webb produced a "vivid record" of the city which earned him recognition.
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Todd Webb was hired in 1957 by the United Nations to photograph its General Assembly.
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Todd Webb's photos of his friend Georgia O'Keeffe suggested not only a "loner, severe figure and self-made person" but that there was an "intense connection" between Todd Webb and O'Keeffe.
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Todd Webb's photos suggest an "ageless spirit" which was "weathered and indomitable" like desert rock formations.
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In 1978, Todd Webb won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and continued to live and work in Maine.
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Todd Webb's photographs have been displayed in 25 major museum collections including the MOMA in New York, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC Webb's photographic archive is located in Portland, Maine, where reproduction rights and sales of his prints are managed.
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In 2017, the Todd Webb Archive refurbished its website with biographical data, collection information, and a column regarding news events.