TODD WEBB master photographer vintage photo NYC Start Price USD 5,000.00 Current Price USD 5,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, September 20, 2008 End Time Monday, October 20, 2008 Location Michigan See more about 'TODD WEBB master photographer vintage photo NYC' Description A fantastic vintage original photo by master photographer Todd Webb of New York City. Dates from 1950's. The photo measures 7 1/4x 7 1/4 inches and has Todd Webbs personal stamp and address on back of photo.   Charles Clayton ("Todd") Webb was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1905, and became a successful stockbroker before losing everything in the stockmarket crash before the Great Depression. During those tough years he worked as a forest ranger and gold prospector while trying without success to get his short stories published. In the late 1930s he got a job working in the Export division of Chrysler Corporation, and he joined their camera club in 1938, hoping to learn to use a camera so he could become a travel writer and illustrate his features. Callahan and AdamsThere he met another aspiring photographer, Harry Callahan, who had taken a job with the Chrysler Parts Corporation as a shipping clerk when he left school in 1933. Callahan had also bought his first camera - a Rolleicord - in 1938. Together they abandoned the pictorialism still common in the camera clubs, developing a 'straight' approach to photography. In 1941 both attended an Ansel Adams workshop in Detroit; Webb's work impressed him, and he told him to take it to show Alfred Stieglitz. New York The US Navy sent Webb to the South Pacific in 1942 soon after America entered World War II. On his way through New York he showed his work to the aging Alfred Stieglitz, who encouraged him, writing to him while he was abroad on service. On his return he set up home in New York and was introduced him to leading photographers including Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lisette Model, Walker Evans and Edward Steichen, as well as painter Georgia O'Keefe, who was married to Stieglitz. He photographed an exhibition of her work at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1946, and also took pictures of Stieglitz shortly before his death the same year. First Show Webb's first important exhibition was a show of 165 pictures at the Museum of the City of New York in 1946, curated by Beaumont Newhall. This led to work for Fortune magazine, and also for Standard Oil, whose photographic section was headed by Roy Stryker, who in the 1930s had been in charge of the ground-breaking documentary work of the Farm Security Administration. ParisAfter working for Stryker, Webb went to Europe in 1948 to take pictures for the Camera Clix Corporation. In Paris he met another visiting American, Lucille Minqueau, who became his wife the following year; they lived in France until their return to New York in 1952. Webb took some fine pictures there, especially in Paris. Work from, mainly from France, is in the George Eastman House on-line collection. Out WestIn 1955 and 1956 he won two Guggenheim Fellowships to photograph the locations of the 1849 gold rush and the Oregon Trail - which he followed on foot as well as by bicycle and motor scooter. From he also worked photographing for the United Nations. O'Keefe and New Mexico He had kept in touch with O'Keefe after Stieglitz's death. She was now living in New Mexico and the Webbs visited her several times before eventually in 1961 Webb and his wife Lucille moved close to where she lived in Santa Fe, opening a bookshop there. He took many fine images of O'Keefe and of her house and studio, both when they lived in Santa Fe and on later visits in 1977 and 1981. Later Years In 1979, the Webbs move back to France, and then in 1975, settled in Maine. In 1979 he received a National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship, which enabled him to print much of his work that had not been previously seen. Webb continued taking photographs around America until the 1980s, and his work was collected by and shown at major museums in American and around the world. He died in Maine in 2000, aged 94. SOLO AND GROUP SHOWS : 1946 One Man Show          165 Prints - Museum of the City of New York 1947 One Man Show          Delgado Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana 1947 One Man Show          Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1948 Group Show          In And Out Of Focus - Museum of Modern Art, New York 1948 Group Show          Fifty Photographs By Fifty Photographers, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1950 One Man Show          Museum of Art, Munich, Germany 1950 One Man Show          Paris Architecture - Architectural Center, Wuppertal, Germany 1951 One Man Show          65 Photographs of Paris - US Embassy, Paris 1953 Group Show         Diogenes With A Camera - Museum of Modern Art, New York 1953 Group Show          National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan 1954 One Man Show          80 Photographs by Todd Webb - Eastman House, Rochester, New York 1955 Group Show          The Family Of Man - Museum of Modern Art, New York 1956 One Man Show          90 Photographs by Todd Webb - Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois 1957 Group Show          70 Photographers See New York - Museum of Modern Art, New York 1958 Group Show         U.S.I.S. Exhibit at the Brussels World Fair - A mural four feet high and          twenty-four feet long, of one block on Sixth Avenue, photographed in 1948. 1959 Group Show          Art USA - New York City Coliseum, New York 1960 Group Show          Photographs For Collectors - Museum of Modern Art, New York 1962 One Man Show          Museum of Modern Art, Kalamazoo, Michigan 1962 One Man Show          University of Indiana 1962 Group Show          Eliot Porter, Laura Gilpin and Todd Webb - Museum of Fine Arts         Santa Fe, New Mexico 1962 Group Show          Ideas and Images - 10 photographs by each of 10 photographers         sponsored by the AmericanFederation of Art -         show traveled throughout the US and Europe. 1962 Group Show          Les Grandes Photographes de Notre Temps - Hotel de Ville, Versailles, France 1965 Group Show          New York By Day And Night - Lincoln Center, New York 1965 One Man Show          Todd Webb Photographs - 101 Prints - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas 1966 One Man Show          Todd Webb Photographs - Texas A&M, College Station, Texas 1966 Group Show          Guggenheim Fellows in Photography - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1966 One Man Show          19th Century Texas Homes - 100 Prints - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas 1967 One Man Show          100 Todd Webb Photographs - Museum of The South West, Midlands, Texas 1967 Group Show          Invitational Photographic Exhibition - San Jose State College, San Jose, California 1967 One Man          Show 51 Todd Webb Photographs - University of South Western Louisiana 1968 One Man Show          USA Arts - Provence, France 1969 Group Show          Harlem On My Mind - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1971 One Man Show          New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1971 One Man Show          Maison de la Tour - St. Restitut, France 1974 One Man Show          19th Century Public Buildings - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas 1977 One Man Show          Rinhart Gallery, New York 1977 One Man Show          Westbrook College, Portland, Maine 1979 One Man Show          Prokapas Gallery, New York 1980 One Man Show          University of Southern Maine, Gorham, Maine 1982 Group Show          In Sequence - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1982 One Man Show          Maine Arts Festival - Walker Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 1984 One Man Show          Barn Gallery, Ogonquit, Maine 1988 One Man Show          Barridoff Galleries, Portland, Maine 1991 One Man Show          Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1991 One Man Show          Evans Gallery, Portland, Maine 1992 One Man Show          Houk-Friedman Gallery, New York 1994 Group Show          Of, For and By Georgia O’Keeffe - Whitney Museum - Stamford        Stamford, Connecticut 1995 One Man Show          New York 1946 - Vintage Prints - Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York 1995 One Man Show          Georgia O'Keeffe: The Artist's Landscape - Photographs by Todd Webb         Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia 1996 One Man Show          In conjunction with screening of "Honest Vision" a film of Todd Webb’s life          Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine 1996 One Man Show          Todd Webb - Looking Back - A Retrospective Show of 100 prints         Payson Gallery at Westbrook College, Portland, Maine 1997 One Man Show          Georgia O’Keeffe - Photos by Todd Webb - Scheinbaum & Russek         Santa Fe, New Mexico         (in conjunction with opening of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, July 1997) 1997 One Man Show          Paris - Vintage prints from the 1940’s & 50’s - Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York 1998 One Man Show         Todd Webb Retrospective - Photos of New York, Paris and O’Keeffe         Touring Japan (Osaka & Tokyo) 2000 One Man Show         Photographs by the late Todd Webb: The American West, O’Keeffe, New York, Paris -         Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, Maine 2000 Group Show         Walker Evans & Company Exhibition -         Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York 2000 One Man Show          Todd Webb: Paris Photographs — Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg Massachusetts 2000 One Man Show          Georgia O'Keeffe: The Artist's Landscape, Photographs by Todd Webb          Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO 2000 Group Show          O'Keeffe on Paper - National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 2001 One Man Show          O'Keeffe: The Artist's Landscape, Photographs by Todd Webb -          Durango Arts Center : Durango, Colorado 2001 One Man Show          Todd Webb: Photographs of Paris -          Aucocisco Gallery : Portland, Maine 2001 Group Show          Interiors and Signs of the Times: An Exhibition of 20th Century Photographs -          University of New England : Portland, Maine 2002 One Man Show          Todd Webb: Looking Back Camera         Obscura Gallery, Denver, Colorado 2002 Group Show                         Gotham: Photographs of New York -          Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts 2002  Group Show          Georgia O'Keeffe Through the Eyes of Friends: Portraits and Landscapes -          Scheinbaum & Russek, Ltd., Santa Fe, New Mexico 2002 One Man Show          Georgia O'Keeffe: The Artist's Landscape -          Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico  In 1905, Charles Clayton ("Todd") Webb III was born in Detroit, Michigan. Like Atget, Webb came to his ultimate profession late in life in 1939. He had been a successful stockbroker in the Twenties, then lost his earnings in The Crash that precursored the Great Depression. During the Depression, Webb prospected for gold, worked as a forest ranger, and for about a decade wrote short stories that no one would publish. Finally Webb went to work for Chrysler Corporation in their Export Division to further his interest in international affairs. In 1938 Webb joined the Chrysler Camera Club, where Webb met aspiring photographer Harry Callahan. Webb and Callahan 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," rejecting the popular manipulated methods of the Pictorialists.      After photographing for the Navy in WWII in the South Pacific, Webb moved to New York in the early 1940's. Webb soon developed his own unique style of photographing and was further encouraged by Alfred Stieglitz, the often considered "Godfather of modern photography," to immerse himself in the medium. Stieglitz introduced Webb to Georgia O'Keeffe, Berenice Abbott, Lisette Model, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Edward Steichen, all of whom became important figures in Webb's life.      In 1946 Webb's photographic career soared with the showing of 165 photographs at the Museum of the City of New York. Soon after his first exhibition, he was hired by Fortune Magazine and by Roy Stryker of Standard Oil, who had previously headed the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration. Webb worried that working for Standard Oil might affect his feelings about photography, yet Stryker was an extraordinary editor who helped Webb come to terms with making a living as a photographer.      After his work with Stryker and a few years of photographing in France, Todd Webb followed the trail of the Gold Rush of 1849 across the country with the help of two Guggenheim Fellowships. During his travels out West, he remained in contact with Stieglitz's widow, Georgia O'Keeffe. His friendship with O'Keeffe developed and endured, eventually leading Webb and his wife Lucille to join O'Keeffe in New Mexico for 10 years.      Up until the 1980's, Todd Webb photographed and produced an 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, with important shows in New York, Santa Fe, Tokyo and London. Todd Webb's work 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. On April 15, 2000 at the age of 94, Todd Webb passed away peacefully in central Maine. He is survived by his wife, Lucille. You have to go out and keep adding to your understanding and feeling. that's the only way to develop. I don't think there are any shortcuts. It gets burned into you, if there is a real need."        -Barbara Seyda on Webb's portraits of O'Keeffe       "Pasatiempo" 10/18/91"Perhaps it is tenderness that is expressed best in Webb's portraits of O'Keeffe. Swallowed up in Twilight Canyon, walking in mud glittering like mica or carrying home a deer skull, these portraits became landscapes of a woman, the geology of one woman's journey and her solitude"        - Todd Webb, Pasatiempo, October, 1991 Todd Webb first picked up a camera in the late 1930's. He had thoughts of becoming a travel writer and lecturer using a camera to record his journeys. His interest and love for photography soon crowded out his writing ambitions, and he was able to do the two things he loved the most: travel, meet people, and photograph them. After World War II Todd Webb worked for Roy Stryker, then director of documentary photography for Standard Oil. In l946 Todd Webb photographed extensively in New York. Alfred Stieglitz introduced Webb to Beaumont Newhall, and later in l946 Beaumont Newhall curated an exhibition of Todd Webb's photographs for The Museum of The City of New York. In l949 Todd Webb returned to Paris, met his wife Lucille, and stayed in France for the next four years. In l955 and l956 Todd Webb was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship to photograph the emigrant trails that the early settlers followed to Oregon and California. In 1961 Todd and Lucille moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Georgia O'Keeffe, who they had met along with Alfred Stieglitz in l946, helped get them settled. They opened a bookstore on Canyon Road, and were an integral part of the art community. It was at this time that Webb photographed Georgia O'Keeffe and her home.In 1978 Todd received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. When another photographer commented that the endowment was supposed to support new work by emerging artists, Todd used the money to print a large volume of new work.Todd Webb died in May, 2000 at the age of 94. His life was full of wonderful people and wonderful experiences. His life was like his photographs; at first they seem very simple, without obvious tricks or manipulation, but, on closer examination, they are increasingly complex and marvelously subtle.Todd Webb's work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. His work is included in many museum collections, including The American Embassy, Paris, France; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Bibliotecque Nationale, Paris, France; Chicago Art Institute; George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; Museum of the City of New York; New York Public Library; and The Smithsonian MUSEUM COLLECTIONS : The American Embassy, Paris, FranceAmon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TexasBiblioteque Nationale, Paris, FranceCarnegie Museum, University of Maine at Orono, Orono, MaineChicago Art Institute, Chicago, IllinoisDenver Museum of Fine Art, Denver, ColoradoGeorge Eastman House, Rochester, New YorkGraham Nash CollectionThe International Museum of PhotographyMetropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkMuseum of Art, Detroit, MichiganMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, TexasMuseum of Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MinnesotaMuseum of Modern Art, Tokyo, JapanMuseum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, New YorkMuseum of the City of New York, New YorkThe National Museum, Tokyo, JapanNew Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New MexicoNew York Public Library, New YorkOglethorpe University Museum, Atlanta, GeorgiaThe Painting Gallery, Munich, GermanyPortland Museum of Art, Portland, MaineRoyal Photography Society, London, EnglandThe Smithsonian, Washington, DCWalker Art Museum, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, MaineWorcester Museum of Art, Worcester, Massachusetts On Aug-31-07 at 08:34:50 PDT, seller added the following information: On Feb-29-08 at 07:15:11 PST, seller added the following information: Place a Bid!