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]

Themes

  • landscape
  • memory
  • personal loss
  • poetry
  • South Dakota

Works by Rebecca Norris Webb

  • The Glass Between Us: Reflections on Urban Creatures 2006 · Channel Photographics · book ISBN 978-0-976670-88-9
  • My Dakota: An Elegy for My Brother Who Died Unexpectedly 2012 · Radius Books · book ISBN 978-1-934435-47-2
  • Night Calls 2020 · Radius Books · book ISBN 978-1-942185-77-2
  • A Difficulty Is a Light 2024 · Chose Commune · book ISBN 979-10-96383-45-0

Exhibitions

  • 2015 My Dakota: Photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland solo
  • 2013 My Dakota: Photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks solo
  • 2013 My Dakota: Photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona solo
  • 2013 My Dakota: Photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York City solo
  • 2015 My Dakota: Photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb Blue Sky Gallery, Portland solo

Awards

  • 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship
  • 2019 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant National Endowment for the Arts

References

  1. Rebecca Norris Webb link
  2. Rebecca Norris Webb Biography. Robert Klein Gallery link
  3. Rebecca Norris Webb - Biography. Koch Gallery link