Rebecca Norris Webb, Blue River Road, 2017

Courtesy: Alessia Paladini Gallery

stampa digitale su carta Fuji Crystal, montata su dibond
digital print on Fuji Crystal paper, mounted on dibond
Dimensioni / Size: cm. 63 x 86
Edizione / Edition: 10

Contattare Alessia Paladini Gallery per il prezzo.
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“Nelle fotografie di Rebecca Norris Webb, quello che percepiamo non è la coplessa geometria delle interazioni pubbliche, ma il cogliere atmosfere private in spazi semi-pubblici, nella tradizione delle fotografie quietamente riflessive di
André Kertész, Robert Frank e Saul Leiter— immagini che suggeriscono molto della’interiorità del fotografo e allo stesso tempo della complessità del mondo.
Penso alle sue immagini come immagini aeree, piene di entrate e di uscite. E’ una poetessa visuale di soglie, spesso attraverso l’utilizzo di riflessi, acquari, tende e finestre ad evocare quegli altri spazi di incontro più metaforici - tra il proprio paesaggio interiore e il mondo naturale, i sogni e la realtà, la vita e la morte. Ho un ricordo di me seduto, con il suo libro My Dakota. Dopo poco fui come ipnotizzato dall’intensa tranquillità di quelle foto. Il mondo scomparve. Potevo sentire il mio cuore battere. Il silenzio, il dolore, la risacca emotiva mentre sfogliavo ogni pagina mi incuriosivano: come riesce un fotografo a creare una tale quiete immobile?”
— Teju Cole, introduzione, On Street Photography and the Poetic Image

“In Rebecca’s street photography, what we get is not the complex geometry of public interactions, but the capture of private moods in semi-public spaces, in the tradition of those quietly reflective photographs of André Kertész, Robert Frank, and Saul Leiter—images that suggest as much about the photographer’s interiority as they do about the wider world. I think of her images as being ventilated, full of entrances and exits. She is a visual poet of thresholds, often making use of reflections, aquaria, curtains, and windows to evoke those other more metaphoric meeting places—between one’s interior land- scape and the natural world, reverie and reality, life and death. I remember sitting down with her book My Dakota. After a while, I was drawn into the intense quiet of those photos. The world fell away. I could hear my heart beating. The hush, grief, and emotional undertow as I turned each page made me curious: how does a photographer create such stillness?“
— Teju Cole, introduction, On Street Photography and the Poetic Image

Rebecca Norris Webb

USA @ USA

Rebecca Norris Webb (1956) nasce nella comunità rurale di Rushville, Indiana. Originariamente poetessa, Norris Webb studia Letteratura inglese alla University of South Dakota. Si avvicina alla fotografia in seguito ad un “blocco dello scrittore”, subito dopo la laurea.
Le sue fotografie sono apparse in importanti riviste quali The New Yorker, Le Monde, e The New York Times Magazine e fanno parte di collezioni pubbliche e private quali:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Cleveland Museum of Art Pier 24, San Francisco; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY; North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, N.D.; Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Mass.; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Mass.; Zucchi Museum, Milano; Fototeca, National Photography Archive, Havana, Cuba; Dahl Arts Center, Rapid City, South Dakota; JGS Collection, New York, NY; Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.; Cassilhaus Collection, Durham, North Carolina.

Rebecca Norris Webb (1956) was born in the rural farming community of Rushville, Indiana. Originally a poet, Webb studied English at the University of South Dakota, later becoming interested in photography after experiencing writer’s block after graduate school. Of this transition Webb explains, “After college, for some reason my poetry dried up. Looking back, I think the kind of lyric poetry I was writing then didn’t contain enough of the wider world—nor my curiosity about it. My response to writer’s block was to buy a small camera and travel for a year, hoping my photographs would spark my poetry when I returned. Instead, I fell in love with photography. I realized that the eye focusing on those images in my poetry was the same eye looking through the lens.”
Her photographs have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Le Monde, among other publications. A 2019 NEA grant recipient, Norris Webb has work in numerous collections, including the MFA, Boston; The Cleveland Museum of Art; and the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY.

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