Terri Weifenbach

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. ISBN 978-4-905052-57-9. 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

References

  1. ^ Kirkham, Rochelle (3 August 2017). "'The May Sun': Cycle of life flowers in photo exhibition". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  2. ^ a b "Terri Weifenbach". Center for Creative Photography. 27 November 2019. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  3. ^ a b "April 12, 2001". North Carolina Museum of Art. 11 March 2021. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  4. ^ a b "New Guggenheim Fellows Reflect on Landscape Photography". Time. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  5. ^ a b c "Terri Weifenbach". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  6. ^ a b "Terri Weifenbach". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  7. ^ "Terri Weifenbach". www.terriweifenbach.com. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  8. ^ Martin Parr; Gerry Badger (2006). The Photobook: A History, Volume II. London: Phaidon. p. 44–45. ISBN 978-0-7148-4433-6.
  9. ^ a b "Episode 49: Terri Weifenbach". Magic Hour. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  10. ^ "An Interview with John Gossage on 'There and Gone'" (2000)". American Suburb X. 18 April 2011. Retrieved 2022-01-09.