Todd Webb
American, 1905 - 2000
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BiographyTodd Webb (American, 1905–2000) was an American photographer notable for documenting everyday life and architecture in cities such as New York City, Paris, as well as from the American west. His photography has been compared with Harry Callahan, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and the French photographer Eugène Atget. In both 1955 and 1956, Todd Webb was awarded two successive John Simon Guggenheim fellowships to photograph the pioneer trails that early America settlers followed to Oregon and California. His work is included in numerous museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Art Institute, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and the Center for Creative Photography.