Todd Webb: Paris: A Love Story: 1948-1952

Todd Webb: Paris: A Love Story: 1948-1952
Category: Photographer Monographs & Art Books
Author: Todd Webb
Publisher: Damiani
Publication Date: 2025
Print Length: 136 pages
Language: English
Price: paid paid paid

Remarkable images of postwar Paris from one of the major American photographic documentarians

After working as a war photographer during World War II, American photographer Todd Webb (1905–2000) decided to make his career in the profession. After several years photographing New York City―socializing with Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Berenice Abbott and Minor White―he moved to Paris in the late 1940s and made his first negatives with an 8×10 camera. He quickly found himself having the time of his life―mingling with other artists such as Gordon Parks, Man Ray and Brassaï. In his journal, Webb often worried about money and whether he could make it in Paris, but he persevered. This publication includes never-before-published excerpts from Webb's journals and showcases the pictures Webb shot from 1948 to 1952 as he, inspired in part by the work of Eugène Atget, took to the streets to make a personal, beautiful and lasting record of postwar Paris.

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