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, his photographs contradict his own romantic images of Africa. (He found the systemic racism in Rhodesia particularly discomforting.)