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PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW

Eager exploration of New York, Paris

Todd Webb’s artistic affinities on display in Bowdoin show

By Mark Feeney

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 27, 2011

BRUNSWICK, Maine - Youth may or may not be wasted on the young, but experience is never wasted on artists. Todd Webb is a case in point. “After Atget: Todd Webb Photographs New York and Paris’’ makes that plain. The show runs at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art through Jan. 29. Webb knew Ansel Adams, Helen Levitt, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott, andAlfred Stieglitz. But perhaps his most important influence was a photographer he never met, Eugene Atget

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