Todd Webb

In 1955, two photographers received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation for U.S. survey projects: Robert Frank and Todd Webb. Frank’s cross-country trip by car would result in the celebrated book...

The National Museum of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam is organizing an exhibition of Todd Webb's photographs of the African continent to open December 9, 2021 (Tanzanian Independence Day). The exhibition will provide an overview of Webb's United Nations commission in eight different countries with a special focus on 62 years of development in Tanzania, showing Webb's 1958 images of specific sites juxtaposed with contemporary images by a Tanzanian photographer.

This exhibition presents a recently recovered photographic series taken by American documentary photographer Todd Webb in 1958. Commissioned by the United Nations to document emerging industries and technologies in Ghana, Kenya, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Somalia, Sudan, Togo, and Tanganyika and Zanzibar (both now Tanzania), these early color photographs went largely unused by the U.N.’s publications.