In Photos: From Ghana to Paris

Place du Commerce, Paris, 1949

‘He has chosen to record that which is not spectacular; his approach is the opposite of the news photographer, who seeks the novel and the unusual.’

Election Day, Vote for Independence from France, Togo, 1958

After he was hired in 1957 by the UN to capture its general assembly on film, Webb then won a contract to photograph sub–Saharan Africa in 1958.