Rebecca Norris Webb
author · photographer
Rebecca Norris Webb is an American photographer and poet known for her hybrid personal documentary form that interweaves photographs with spare text. Born in Rushville, Indiana, she moved to the Black Hills of South Dakota at age 15. She graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1989. Her work often explores themes of memory, history, and reverie through a lyrical lens. Webb has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2007) and an NEA grant (2019). Her photographs have been featured in publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and National Geographic. She frequently collaborates with her husband and creative partner, photographer Alex Webb.[1,2,3]
- landscape
- memory
- personal loss
- poetry
- South Dakota
Books
Works by Rebecca Norris Webb
- 2006 The Glass Between Us: Reflections on Urban Creatures
- 2012 My Dakota: An Elegy for My Brother Who Died Unexpectedly
- 2020 Night Calls
- 2024 A Difficulty Is a Light
Exhibitions
- 2015 My Dakota: Photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb
- 2013 My Dakota: Photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb
- 2013 My Dakota: Photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb
- 2013 My Dakota: Photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb
- 2015 My Dakota: Photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb
Awards
- 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2019 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant