Rebecca Norris Webb

Rebecca Norris Webb (born 1956) is an American photographer.[1] Originally a poet, her eight books often combine text and images. An NEA grant recipient, she has work in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Cleveland Museum of Art, among other museums. Her photographs have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Le Monde, and other magazines. She sometimes collaborates with photographer Alex Webb, her husband and creative partner.

Rebecca Norris Webb
Born1956
Rushville, Indiana
Known forPhotography
Notable work
The Glass Between Us, Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba, My Dakota, Night Calls
Spouse(s)Alex Webb
Websitewww.webbnorriswebb.co

Life and career

She was born in Rushville, Indiana and moved to the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1972 at the age of 15.[2][3] She has authored eight photography books, which often interweave her photographs and spare text. These include her three monographs—The Glass Between Us: Reflections on Urban Creatures (2006), My Dakota: An Elegy for My Brother Who Died Unexpectedly (2012), and Night Calls (2020)—as well as five collaborations with her husband and creative partner, Alex Webb: Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba (2009), Memory City (2014), On Street Photography and the Poetic Image (2014), Slant Rhymes (2017), and Brooklyn: The City Within (2019). My Dakota blends her spare text with her photographs of her home state of South Dakota where she came of age.[4] For Night Calls, she retraced the route of some of her 99-year-old doctor father house calls, in the same rural county where they both were born, Rush County, Indiana. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[5][6] the George Eastman Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art,[7] the Museum of the City of New York, and internationally. My Dakota was first exhibited in 2012 at the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, South Dakota, and later exhibited at the North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks, North Dakota, (2013), the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, Florida, (2013), Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York City, NYC, (2013), Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, (2015), and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, (2015).[8] In 2019, she was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Norris Webb teaches photography workshops with her husband and creative partner, Alex Webb.

Publications

Publications by Norris Webb
  • The Glass Between Us. New York: Channel Photographics, 2006. ISBN 978-0-976670-88-9.
  • My Dakota. Sante Fe, NM: Radius, 2012. ISBN 978-1-934435-47-2.
  • Night Calls. Santa Fe, NM: Radius, 2020. ISBN 978-1-942185-77-2.

Publications paired with Alex Webb
  • Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, Violet Isle. Santa Fe, NM: Radius, 2009. ISBN 978-1-934435-18-2.
  • Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, Memory City. Sante Fe, NM: Radius. 2014. ISBN 978-1-934435-76-2.
  • Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image: The Photography Workshop Series. New York: Aperture, 2014. ISBN 978-1-59711-257-4.
  • Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, Slant Rhymes. Madrid: La Fábrica, 2017. ISBN 978-8416248865.
  • Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, Brooklyn: The City Within. Aperture, 2019. ISBN 978-1597114561.

Contributions to publications
  • Contatti. Provini d'Autore = Choosing the best photo by using the contact sheet. Vol. I. Edited by Giammaria De Gasperis. Rome, Italy: Postcart, 2012. ISBN 978-88-86795-87-6.
  • Picturing America's National Parks. New York, New York: Aperture, 2016. Co-published with George Eastman Museum. ISBN 978-1-59711-356-4.
  • ONE. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Radius, 2017. ISBN 978-19-42185-34-5.
  • Documentum Issue 2: Pictures and Words.[9] Atlanta, Georgia: Fall Line Press, 2016.
  • Street Photography: A History In 100 Iconic Images. Edited by David Gibson. Munich, London: Prestel, 2019. ISBN 3791384880.
  • Photographers Looking at Photographs: 75 Pictures from the Pilara Foundation. San Francisco, California: Pier 24, 2019. ISBN 978-1-59711-006-8.

Non-English Language Publications

  • My Dakota. Rome: Postcart, 2016. ISBN 978-8886795708
  • Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, Rimas de Reojo. Madrid: La Fábrica, 2017. ISBN 978-8416248940.

References
  1. Cole, Teju (11 August 2014). "Slant Rhymes: Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on "Memory City"". The New Yorker. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  2. Estrin, James (21 June 2012). "Prairie, Poetry, and Loss". Lens, The New York Times. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  3. Himes, Darius, Chickey, David (December 5, 2012). ""Re-Visioning" - Rebecca Norris Webb's My Dakota". Flak Photo. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
  4. Shaheen, Suzanne (1 June 2012). "The Landscape of Loss: Rebecca Norris Webb's "My Dakota"". The New Yorker. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  5. Feeney, Mark (31 May 2011). "Tropical heat and color". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  6. "The Week Ahead: May 29 — June 4". The New York Times. 27 May 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  7. kmiers (2015-02-02). "My Dakota: Photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb". Cleveland Museum of Art. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  8. High Country News (18 February 2013). "My Dakota: A photo essay and conversation". High Country News. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  9. Documentum. "Documentum — Issue 2: Pictures & Words". www.documentum.tv. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
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