An evocative portrait of New York City in the 1940s and 1950s by master documentary photographer Todd Webb
I See a City: Todd Webb’s New York focuses on the work of photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed the city day and night, in all seasons and in all weather. Buildings, signage, vehicles, the passing throngs, isolated figures, curious eccentrics, odd corners, windows, doorways, alleyways, squares, avenues, storefronts, uptown, and downtown, from the Brooklyn Bridge to Harlem.
The book is a rich portrait of the everyday life and architecture of New York. Webb’s work is clear, direct, focused, layered with light and shadow, and captures the soul of these places shaped by the friction and frisson of humanity.
A native of Detroit, Webb studied photography in the 1930s under the guidance of Ansel Adams at the Detroit Camera Club, served as a navy photographer during World War II, and then went on to become a successful postwar photographer. His work is in many museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Todd Webb’s New York at the Museum of the City of New York, where Webb had his first solo exhibition in 1946, this book helps restore the reputation and legacy of a forgotten American artist. 150 back-and-white illustrations

I See a City: Todd Webb's New York

Arts & Photography

Webb, Todd

Okrent, Daniel

Corcoran, Sean

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

Product Description 
An evocative portrait of New York City in the 1940s and 1950s by master documentary photographer Todd Webb. 
I See a City: Todd Webb’s New York focuses on the work photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed the city day and night, in all seasons, and in all weather. Buildings, signage, vehicles, the passing throngs, isolated figures, curious eccentrics―from the Brooklyn Bridge to Harlem, this book is a rich portrait of the everyday life and architecture of New York. Webb’s work is focused and layered with light and shadow, capturing the soul of this city shaped by the friction and frisson of humanity. 
A native of Detroit, Webb studied photography in the 1930s under the guidance of Ansel Adams at the Detroit Camera Club, served as a navy photographer during World War II, and went on to become a successful postwar photographer. His work is in many museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. This book, now available in a compact edition, helps contemporary audiences get to know a forgotten American artist and an ever-changing city. Illustrated throughout 
 Review 
"An evocative post–World War II tribute to the photographer’s body of work in black-and-white [and a] feast for historians and sentimentalists." 
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New York Times\n" 
I See a City: Todd Webb’s New York shows an upbeat, down-market post–World War II Manhattan, filled with sidewalk vendors and one-story sheds and hand-painted signs. . . . His pictures present a vividly comestible pedestrian- eye view, one that invites you to walk into that pawnshop, take a seat on that streetcar." 
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New York Times Book Review\n"Beautifully produced and edited... Webb's photographs vividly convey life in the Big Apple as the soldiers came home and as the country regained normalcy after the war... A rare synthesis of observation and emotional engagement." 
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 About the Author 
Sean Corcoran is the Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Museum of the City of New York.\nDaniel Ockrent is an American writer and editor.\nTodd Webb was an American photographer.

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Taschen America, LLC

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Titarenko, Alexey

Damiani

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