《所见城市：托德•韦伯镜头中的纽约》集中展示了摄影师Todd Webb在20世纪40年代和50年代在纽约市拍摄的作品。韦伯不分昼夜地拍摄了纽约在一年四季的各种天气中的样子。建筑物、招牌、车辆、经过的人群、单独的人、奇怪的人、奇特的角落、窗户、门口、小巷、广场、大道、店面，上城区和市中心，从布鲁克林大桥到哈莱姆区。他为纽约的日常生活和建筑创作了一幅质感丰富的肖像画。韦伯的作品清晰、直接、有焦点，光影层次分明，捕捉到了这些被人类的摩擦和震颤所影响的地方的灵魂。

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. He created a richly textured 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.