{"id":798,"date":"2021-01-30T22:45:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T06:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=798"},"modified":"2021-01-30T22:45:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T06:45:24","slug":"lost-for-decades-these-stunning-color-photos-of-africa-in-the-1950s-have-finally-been-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"Lost for Decades, These Stunning Color Photos of Africa in the 1950s Have Finally Been Published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making the rounds today on the internet are the &#8216;rediscovered&#8217; or &#8216;lost&#8217; photos of photographer Todd Webb that had been languishing in a collectors home all timed in conjunction with the release of his archive book.\u00a0 But hey these shots from his 5 month trip in Africa taken with a Rolleiflex and Leica on Kodachrome are pretty awesome!\u00a0 And relevant for their historical and cultural significance.\u00a0 I might even buy the book!\u00a0 I spent some time on the different websites reading about the trip and his life &#8211; you might be also interested.<\/p>\n<p>Great collection of his work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/collections.artsmia.org\/exhibitions\/2830\/todd-webb-in-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minneapolis Institute of Art<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Todd_Webb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wiki page<\/a> on him<\/p>\n<p>and the Vanity Fair article that I first read is linked below the photos<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2021\/01\/stunning-color-photos-of-africa-in-the-1950s-have-finally-been-published\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historic.camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Todd-Webb-Africa-embed-01.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2021\/01\/stunning-color-photos-of-africa-in-the-1950s-have-finally-been-published\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historic.camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Todd-Webb-Africa-embed-05.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2021\/01\/stunning-color-photos-of-africa-in-the-1950s-have-finally-been-published\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historic.camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Todd-Webb-Africa-embed-04.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2021\/01\/stunning-color-photos-of-africa-in-the-1950s-have-finally-been-published\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historic.camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Todd-Webb-Africa-embed-02.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2021\/01\/stunning-color-photos-of-africa-in-the-1950s-have-finally-been-published\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historic.camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Todd-Webb-Africa-embed-07.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The United Nations sent photographer Todd Webb to capture eight African countries during a period of rapid industrialization\u2014but the pictures he came back with included beauty, fashion, jubilation, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2021\/01\/stunning-color-photos-of-africa-in-the-1950s-have-finally-been-published\">Lost for Decades, These Stunning Color Photos of Africa in the 1950s Have Finally Been Published<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making the rounds today on the internet are the &#8216;rediscovered&#8217; or &#8216;lost&#8217; photos of photographer Todd Webb that had been languishing in a collectors home all timed in conjunction with the release of his archive book.\u00a0 But hey these shots from his 5 month trip in Africa taken with a Rolleiflex and Leica on Kodachrome are pretty awesome!\u00a0 And relevant for their historical and cultural significance.\u00a0 I might even buy the book!\u00a0 I spent some time on the different websites<a class=\"entry-more\" href=\"https:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=798\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[365,235,364,137,23,363],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers","tag-famous","tag-history","tag-kodachrome","tag-photographer","tag-rolleiflex","tag-todd-webb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}