Terri Weifenbach Explained
Terri Weifenbach is an American fine-art photographer,[1] living in Paris. She has published a number of books of landscape photography, often of plants and animals, gardens and parks. Her work is held in the collections of the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson[2] and North Carolina Museum of Art.[3] She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.[4]
Life and work
Weifenbach was born in New York City and raised in Washington, D.C.[5] She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1978.[6] Since then she has lived in New Mexico, California and again in Washington, D.C.,[5] and now lives in Paris.[7]
Weifenbach photographs plants and animals and "uses the richness of gardens and parks as the site for her landscape images".[6] Bookmaking is central to her artistic practice.[5] Parr and Badger include In Your Dreams (1997) in the second volume of The Photobook: A History.[8]
She worked as a photographic printer from 1983 to 2006.[9] She was married to John Gossage for 14 years, from 1992.[9] [10]
Publications
Books by Weifenbach
- In Your Dreams. Tucson: Nazraeli, 1997. With an essay by Robert Adams. Edition of 250 copies. A monograph.
- Second edition. Tucson: Nazraeli, 1998. Edition of 1000 copies.
- Third edition. Tucson: Nazraeli, 2000.
- Instruction Manual No. 1. Tucson: Nazraeli, 2000.
- Hunter Green. Tucson: Nazraeli, 2000. With an essay by Yayako Uchida. A monograph.
- Instruction Manual No. 2. Portland: One Picture Book #3. Nazraeli, 2001.
- Instruction Manual No. 3. Portland: One Picture Book #4. Nazraeli, 2001.
- Lana. Portland: Nazraeli, 2002.
- Politics of Flowers. Onestar, 2005.
- Another Summer. Thunderstorm, 2009.
- Some Insects. One Picture Book #67. Portland: Nazraeli, 2010.
- 17 Days. Super Labo, 2012.
- Between Maple and Chestnut. Portland: Nazraeli, 2012.
- Stilll. Super Labo, 2013.
- Centers of Gravity. Onestar, 2017. With text by Matthew Dickman. A book with 10 prints.
- Des oiseaux = On birds. Paris: Xavier Barral, 2019. One in a series, each of which is called Des oiseaux. With an essay by Guilhem Lesaffre.
- Cloud Physics. Paris: EXB / Ice Plant, 2021. English and French editions.
Books with others
- Snake Eyes. With John Gossage. Berlin/Washington D.C.: Loosestrife, 2002. With an essay by Gossage. Edition of 500 copies.
- Hidden Sites. Nooderlicht, 2005. With Machiel Botman, Andreas Gefeller, and Marco Wiegers.
- Lost Home. Tokyo: Super Labo, 2013. . A slipcase containing a 24-page soft-bound book each by Harvey Benge, JH Engström, Roe Ethridge, Takashi Homma, Ron Jude, Daidō Moriyama, Christian Patterson, Slavica Perkovic, Bertien van Manen, Weifenbach, and a 32-page prose poem by Nobuyuki Ishiki. Japanese and English text. Edition of 1000 copies, 200 with a white cover and 800 with green.
- Gift. Amana, 2014. A Volume each by Weifenbach and Rinko Kawauchi.
Awards
Collections
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Rochelle. Kirkham. 2022-01-09. 'The May Sun': Cycle of life flowers in photo exhibition. 3 August 2017. The Japan Times.
- Web site: 2022-01-09. Terri Weifenbach. 27 November 2019. Center for Creative Photography.
- Web site: 2022-01-09. April 12, 2001. 11 March 2021. North Carolina Museum of Art.
- Web site: 2022-01-09. New Guggenheim Fellows Reflect on Landscape Photography. Time.
- Web site: 2022-01-09. Terri Weifenbach. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
- Web site: 2022-01-09. Terri Weifenbach. U.S. Department of State.
- Web site: 2022-01-09. Terri Weifenbach. www.terriweifenbach.com.
- Book: Martin Parr . Gerry Badger . Martin Parr . Gerry Badger . The Photobook: A History, Volume II . London . Phaidon . 2006 . 44–45 . 978-0-7148-4433-6.
- Web site: 2022-01-09. Episode 49: Terri Weifenbach. Magic Hour.
- Web site: 2022-01-09. An Interview with John Gossage on 'There and Gone'" (2000). 18 April 2011. American Suburb X.
