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Verso - Artist signed and noted : 44AM60-#20, From Ghost Town Book, Bodie , Calif. 1960 Todd Webb. #995.163 E
Charles Clayton ("Todd") Webb III had been a successful stockbroker then lost everything in The Crash which brought about the Great Depression.
After a series of odd jobs, Webb met aspiring photographer Harry Callahan and the two embarked on their photographic career together, which began with a workshop from Ansel Adams.
The workshop with Adams reaffirmed Webb's interest in the sharp focus technique of "straight photography.”
Webb moved to New York in the early 1940's and soon developed his own unique style of photographing.
In 1946 Webb's photographic career soared with the showing of 165 photographs at the Museum of the City of New York.
Up until the 1980's, Todd Webb photographed and produced a unique body of work which attained an important place in the annals of American photographic history.
Frequently referred to as "an historian with a camera," Webb's wonderfully rich images document life all over the world, including New York, France and the American West.
His work has been internationally exhibited and is in the collections of fifteen major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), NY; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Chicago Art Institute; and the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.
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