{"product_id":"todd-webb-in-africa-aime-bessire-9780500545393","title":"Todd Webb in Africa: Outside the Frame","description":"\u003cp\u003eTodd 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 brought him to eight African countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1958, Webb was invited by the United Nations to document Togoland (now Togo), Ghana, Kenya, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (now Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi), Somaliland (now Somalia), Sudan, Tanganyika and Zanzibar (now merged as Tanzania) over a five-month assignment. Equipped with three cameras and briefed to document industrial progress, he returned with approximately fifteen hundred color negatives, but less than twenty of them were published, in black and white, by the United Nations Department of Public Information. The archive was then lost for over fifty years and was only rediscovered by the Todd Webb Archive in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eTodd Webb in Africa\u003c\/em\u003e includes over 150 striking color photographs from Webb's African United Nations assignment. This book, and an accompanying touring exhibition, provides expert insight into Webb's images with contributions by both African and American scholars. Included essays engage the photographs in their historical and artistic moment, and provide crucial insight into the role of photography in visualizing national independence and ingrained imperialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aimée Bessire, Erin Hyde Nolan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0500545391\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780500545393\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thames \u0026amp; Hudson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.80h x 10.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/02\/2021 pg. 1","brand":"Aimée Bessire","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44043699126527,"sku":"9780500545393","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b76b1af3-7ea1-4d0a-919a-10aba8a3ed1b.jpg?v=1684968641","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/todd-webb-in-africa-aime-bessire-9780500545393","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}