Suffolk and Hester Streets, New York, 1946
Fulton Fish Market Wharf, New York, 1946
Amsterdam Avenue near 125th Street, Harlem, 1946
5th Ave. at 42nd St., New York, 1946
Times Square, New York, 1946
125th Street, Street Car, New York, 1946
Mazie, Queen of the Bowery, New York, 1946
Lexington Avenue near 110th Street, Harlem, 1946
106th St., New York (FDR Poster), 1946
Mr. Perkin's Pierce Arrow, New York, 1946
Welcome Home, McSorley's, New York, 1946
125th St. (Hat Store), New York, 1946
"The Circle", LaSalle at Amsterdam, New York, 1946
125th Street, Harlem, New York, 1946
125th St. at Broadway, Summer St. Car, New York, 1946
The Battery, Lower Manhattan, New York (Peanut Man), 1945
Boys Near the Fulton Fish Market, New York, 1946
Coney Island, New York, 1946
Madison at Pike St., Lower East Side, New York, 1946
125th St., New York (The People's Voice), 1946
2nd Ave. at 50th St., New York, 1946
From the Empire State Building (Looking South at Night), New York, 1946
From the Empire State Building, Looking South, 1946
From the Third Avenue El, on the Bowery (157 Bowery at Broome St.), New York, 1946
Under the El, Third Avenue, New York, 1946
Sixth Avenue (Man in Window), New York, 1948
125th Street (Red Heart) New York, 1946
As a newly discharged Navy veteran, Webb (1905-2000) moved to New York in 1945 to dedicate a year to photographing the city. Armed with a large format camera and tripod, he worked relentlessly and the year turned into several decades. Webb’s images captured the city’s contrasts—from Midtown’s skyscrapers to the Lower East Side’s tenements, from high-powered businessmen in the Financial District to the remnants of old ethnic enclaves in Lower Manhattan. A City Seen includes his investigations of these neighborhoods, as well as Harlem near 125th Street and Third Avenue Elevated, which would be decommissioned in the 1950s. Also featured are portraits by Webb of members of his intimate circle of friends, including Alfred Stieglitz, Harry Callahan, Berenice Abbott, Helen Levitt, and Lisette Model.
