1958年，托德•韦伯应联合国邀请，执行一项为期5个月的任务：用照片记录多哥兰（现多哥）、加纳、肯尼亚、罗得西亚联邦和尼亚萨兰（现津巴布韦、赞比亚和马拉维）、索马里兰（现索马里）、苏丹、坦噶尼喀和桑给巴尔（现合并为坦桑尼亚）。他带着三台相机，受命记录非洲在工业方面的进步。回来时，他带了大约1 500张彩色底片，但其中只有不到20张被联合国新闻部以黑白照片的形式公开。此后，这些档案丢失了五十多年，直到2017年才被托德•韦伯档案馆重新发现。

《托德•韦伯在非洲》收录了韦伯在非洲执行联合国任务期间拍摄的150多张引人注目的彩色照片。这本书和举办的同主题巡回展览提供了对韦伯拍摄的照片的专业见解，还包含非洲和美国学者撰写的文章。随附的文章将这些照片置于其历史和艺术时刻，并对摄影在将民族独立和根深蒂固的帝国主义视觉化这一方面发挥的作用发表了至关重要的见解。

Todd Webb is largely known for his skillful photographic documentation of everyday life and architecture in cities, most notably New York and Paris, as well as his photographs of the American West. This new book showcases a different side of Webb’s work, taken from an assignment that took him to eight African countries.

In 1958, Webb was invited by the United Nations to document Togoland (now Togo), Ghana, Kenya, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (now Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi), Somaliland (now Somalia), Sudan, Tanganyika and Zanzibar (now merged as Tanzania) over a five-

month assignment. Equipped with three cameras and briefed to document industrial progress, he returned with approximately 1,500 colour negatives, but less than twenty of them were published, in black and white, by the United Nations Department of Public Information. The archive was then lost for over fifty years and was only rediscovered by the Todd Webb Archive in 2017.

Todd Webb in Africa includes over 150 striking colour photographs from Webb’s African United Nations assignment. This book, and an accompanying touring exhibition, provides expert insight into Webb’s images with contributions by both African and American scholars. Accompanying essays place the photographs in their historical and artistic moment, and provide crucial insight into the role of photography in visualizing national independence and ingrained imperialism.