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IN 1958 the American photographer Todd Webb travelled to Africa to document industry and technology. Commissioned by the United Nations Office of Public Information, Webb photographed the first full election in what was then Togoland (Togo now), oil rigs in Somalia (when it was still known as Somaliland) and copper mining in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) as he visited eight African nations. Webb arrived in the last days of colonialism and, as Aimee Bessire and Erin Hyde Nolan point out in their new book Todd Webb: Outside the Frame, he was very much a white male outsider. But, at times, hi...

Graef ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) – The shooting deaths of two teenagers in a Maryland parking lot are not the fault of the property’s owner. The Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled that way on Jan. 28 in a lawsuit over a 2016 shooting in Capitol Heights. The crime is unsolved, and the parents of two teenagers who died have lost their effort to seek damages from property owner Regency Lane LLC. The lawsuit says Regency failed to provide adequate security measures and failed to protect tenants and their guests from foreseeable criminal activity. And tho...

Thames & Hudson to publish 'Todd Webb in Africa: Outside the Frame' by Aimée Bessire and Erin Hyde Nolan Todd Webb, Untitled (44UN-7990-212), Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1958. Pedestrians walking past SAR Travel Bureau, Truworths, and other shops, Bulawayo. © 2021 Todd Webb Archive. NEW YORK, NY .- In 1958, photographer Todd Webb, best known for his remarkable images of the everyday life and architecture of New York and Paris, as well as photographs of the American West, was commissioned by the United Nations Office of Public Information to document the progress of industry and technology...

Sunbeams … detail of Two Women on the Beach, Somalia, 1958, by former banker and gold-miner Webb. To see the full image, click here. Photograph: © 2021 Todd Webb Archive Sunbeams … detail of Two Women on the Beach, Somalia, 1958, by former banker and gold-miner Webb. To see the full image, click here. Photograph: © 2021 Todd Webb Archive In the late 1950s, Todd Webb toured Africa – and captured a new spirit as the shackles of colonialism were cast off. Missing for decades, his extraordinary photographs are finally being published Tue 19 Jan 2021 01.00 EST Last modified on...

Per Gov. Tim Walz’s latest executive order, museums may reopen this week at 25 percent capacity. They won’t all reopen at once. Some won’t reopen until later this year.