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

Methodists in nineteenth-century Ontario and Quebec, like all British subjects, existed as satellites of an influential empire. Transatlantic Methodists uncovers how the Methodist ministry and laity in these colonies, whether they were British, American, or native-born, came to define themselves as transplanted Britons and Wesleyans, in response to their changing, often contentious relationship with the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Britain. Revising the nationalist framework that has dominated much of the scholarship on Methodism in central Canada, Todd Webb argues that a transatlantic perspective is necessary to understand the process of cultural formation among nineteenth-century Methodists. He shows that the Wesleyan Methodists in Britain played a key role in determining the identities of their colonial counterparts through disputes over the meaning of political loyalty, how Methodism should be governed, who should control church finances, and the nature and value of religious revivalism. At the same time, Methodists in Ontario and Quebec threatened to disrupt the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Britain and helped to trigger the largest division in its history. Methodists on both sides of the Atlantic shaped - and were shaped by - the larger British world in which they lived. Drawing on insights from new research in British, Atlantic, and imperial history, Transatlantic Methodists is a comprehensive study of how the nineteenth-century British world operated and of Methodism's place within it.

Transatlantic Methodists: British Wesleyanism and the Formation of an Evangelical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec (Volume 2) (McGill-Queen’s Studies in the Hist of Re)

History

Americas

McGill-Queen's University Press

Text and photographs by Todd Webb; foreword by Michael E. Rowell. b&amp;w photos throughout. Taken from journals Webb kept for most of his life, this volume records life as a photographer\'s mate in the Pacific during World War II, his trials as a struggling photographer in New York, his friendships with Alfred Stieglitz, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Helen Levitt, Minor White, Berenice Abbott, Lisette Model and others. An essential document on post-war American photography.

Looking Back: Memoirs and Photographs

Photography & Video

Univ of New Mexico Pr

Originally the catalogue for an exhibition held at the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Ft. Worth, November 25, 1965 - January 16, 1966; this edition has been revised. Photographs by Todd Webb; introductory essay by Beaumont Newhall. 48 pages; 36 full-page b&w plates + portrait of the artist by Georgia O'Keeffe; 8 x 9 inches. Artist's biography.

Todd Webb, Photographs: Early Western Trails and Some Ghost Towns.

Amon Carter Museum

The story of a man named Bob, whose perspective on the world is changed by a pet goldfish. The Goldfish &amp; Bob was the debut graphic novella from cartoonist Todd Webb when he was only 19 years old - the book was originally self-published in limited quantities in 2001, and featured by Top Shelf Comics in their original "Dot Comix" lineup. The short book was well received by critics and has survived the years circulating online, finally to be reprinted nearly 15 years later. As Jimmy Gownley (creator of hit Scholastic series "Amelia Rules!") put it: "Todd Webb's cartoons are not only a breath of fresh air, but a ray of hope. The Goldfish &amp; Bob is one of the sweetest stories comics has to offer."

The Goldfish & Bob

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Second House

Tuesday Brooks has had a bad day. What could possibly cheer her up? An adventure with Mann, the man in the moon! A charming tale for kids of all ages from Nickelodeon Magazine cartoonist Todd Webb, sure to lift your spirits.

Tuesday Moon

Using conceptual methods popularized in music composition by John Cage, cartoonist/musician Todd Webb creates the experimental comic strip series Chance Operations, one of the first truly "indeterminate" comics. Chance Operations is an exercise in allowing formal constraints to decide the content and design of a sequential artwork - while Webb draws the comics, he does not "write" them, so to speak, instead using coin tossing and dice to determine the images and texts which make up the work. Experimental comics artist Warren Craghead describes Webb's book as "Conceptually focused and stunningly drawn, Chance Operations is a radical and beautiful experiment you can't stop looking at. After reading one sees connections, narratives and beauty everywhere - this work helps me see the world as comics and makes me want to draw." A must-have for any lover of conceptual art, poetry, or experimental comics.

Chance Operations

Color everything and color nothing on your path to mindfulness with this playful coloring book! Packed with just enough to keep you entertained in the present moment, SLOW DOWN is sure to become your go-to meditation guide as you color your way to a calmer, less stressful life. With simple illustrations and inspirational text it makes a great gift! "Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens." - John Cage "I make myself rich by making my wants few." - Henry David Thoreau "I like turtles." - Zombie Kid Todd Webb (born 1981) is an artist living and working in Virginia Beach. He is the author of numerous books including Chance Operations, Tuesday Moon, The Woodlands, and The Goldfish &amp; Bob, and he draws the popular children's comic book series Mr. Toast. He was a regular contributor to Nickelodeon Magazine in its heyday and currently illustrates The Adventures of Danny &amp; Mike with television's "Pete &amp; Pete" stars Danny Tamberelli and Mike Maronna. His work has been exhibited nationally at Gallery1988 (Los Angeles), SpokeArt (New York), Bear &amp; Bird Gallery (Florida), Telegraph Gallery (Charlottesville, VA), and was featured in the seminal drawing show "The Nothing That Is" at CAM Raleigh (Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina) curated by Bill Thelen and Jason Polan. When he isn't drawing he is releasing music under the names Seamonster and Oahu.

Slow Down: A Minimalist Coloring Book

Long Pond Road is the first issue of a new ongoing anthology series by cartoonist Todd Webb. This first issue clocks in at 142 pages and features new autobiographical comics, never-before-seen sketchbook material, biographical strips about the artists Georgia O'Keeffe and Ray Johnson, a selection of new drawings, the first 60 pages of Webb's epic in progress - Reading War & Peace, and more Sure to delight fans of all ages, Long Pond Road serves as a catch-all for Webb's harder to find pieces as well as a home for new serializations. "Todd Webb's comics are less about chronicling life's events than expressing an unabashed love of living, good medicine for anyone in a bit of a funk." - Jeffrey Brown, bestselling author of Clumsy and the Vader and Son series.

Long Pond Road: the first issue

The Poet is the comic strip quietly taking the internet by storm - one unsuspecting new reader at a time - and has been described as being "like PEANUTS, but if Linus was an old man and Woodstock had an attitude." Life Is A Donut is the third collection of The Poet comic strips, and follows its uniquely thoughtful cast of characters: the Poet, the Pigeon, and the Park Bench as they contemplate our silly place in the grand scheme of things, the meaning of poetry, and donuts. "The Poet has a sense of humor about thinking hard and feeling deeply while not apologizing for such outrageous behavior. It's refreshing." - Hal Hartley, film director"Serene, existential, and self aware, Todd Webb's The Poet is a humorous and ultimately helpful respite from... everything." - Adam J. Kurtz, author of Things Are What You Make of Them: Life Advice for Creatives"These gently funny comics give a glimpse of a poet making his way in the world, accompanied by a somewhat skeptical bird. The two in combination strike a happy balance between dreaminess and the corporeal world, so that what emerges is an overall sense of love for poetry and its makers - the kind of love that's intimate enough to make space for poking fun. (It also makes space for a talking bench, which is an inarguably good thing.)" - Heather Christle, poet and author of What is Amazing and The Crying Book"Todd Webb has figured out what poetry was missing all these years - PICTURES!" - Derek Drymon, creative director of SpongeBob Squarepants & executive producer of Adventure Time

Life Is A Donut: Selected Cartoons from THE POET - Volume 3

Comic Strips

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