Oral history interview with Todd Webb

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Oral history interview with Todd Webb

1990 September 4-1992 May 22

An interview of Todd Webb conducted 1990 September 4-1992 May 22, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art. Webb speaks of his childhood in Detroit and Ontario, Canada; friendship with photographer Harry Callahan and the influence of a course by Ansel Adams on them both; service as a Navy photographer in World War II; development of a close friendship with Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe during the late 1940s; photographic assignments with FORTUNE magazine for Standard Oil Company under Roy Stryker, and in England and France under Rene Leonhardt, a photo agency; writing and photographic essays on the American West; assignments in 1960s for the United Nations; sale, in the 1970s, of negatives and work to date to the collector George Rinhart; residence in Maine; and his frequent travels.

Sound recording 3 sound cassettes.Transcript: 57 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7917135

Archives of American Art

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Webb, Todd

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b. 1905; d. April 15, 2000. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 82232702 Webb, Todd. American Photographer. Born: September 15, 1905 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. . Education: Newmarket High School, Ontario, 1920-24; University of Toronto, 1924-25; studied photography, under Ansel Adams, photography workshop, Detroit, 1940. Military service: Photographers mate first class, U.S. Na...

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Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, renowned for her contribution to modern art.Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. By the time she graduated from high school in 1905, O’Keeffe had determined to make her way as an artist. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, where she learned the techniques of traditional painting. Th...

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946

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Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984

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Ansel Adams, American photographer, was born February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. He was tutored privately at home where he studied piano, San Francisco, from 1914 to 1927, then studied photography with the photofinisher Frank Dittman, in San Francisco, in 1916 and 1917. He married Virginia Best in 1928, and had two children, Michael and Anne. Adams began his career as a photographer, 1927, and worked as a commercial photographer, from 1930 to 1960. He was a photography correspond...

Webb, Todd 1906-2000

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Webb, Todd, 1906-2000, Photographer; writer of Bath, Me. Born Charles Clayton Webb III, in Detroit, MI, in 1905. Sudied with Ansel Adams. Died April 15, 2000, at age 94. From the description of Oral history interview with Todd Webb 1990 Sept. 4-1992 May 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646399578 ...

Callahan, Harry M.

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Self-taught American photographer, known also as an instructor (Art Institute of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design). His work frequently depicts the dichotomies in nature, with light and shadow, and positive and negative space forming as much of the image as solid objects. From the description of Harry Callahan Collection. 1946-1978. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122632973 Callahan, Harry. American Ph...

Brown, Robert F.

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Archives of American Art Regional Director of the New England office. From the description of Robert Brown interview, 1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83873055 ...