Rebecca Norris Webb | |
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![]() Rebecca Webb in 2011 | |
Born | 1956 |
Known for | Photography |
Notable work |
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Spouse | Alex Webb |
Website | www |
Rebecca Norris Webb (born 1956) is an American photographer.[1] Originally a poet, her books often combine text and images. An NEA grant recipient, she has work in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Cleveland Museum of Art. 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.
Norris Webb was born in Rushville, Indiana and moved to the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1972 at the age of 15.[2][3]
Her photography books often interweave photographs and spare text. These include the 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 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 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] and the Museum of the City of New York.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]
Norris Webb teaches photography workshops with her husband and creative partner, Alex Webb.
Non-English language books