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JoAnn Verburg is an American photographer. Verburg is married to poet Jim Moore, who is frequently portrayed as reading the newspaper or napping in her photographs. She lives and works in St. Paul, Minnesota and Spoleto, Italy.
JoAnn Verburg was born in 1950 in Summit, New Jersey. She studied at Ohio Wesleyan University, earning her B.A. in sociology in 1972. [1] While she was studying sociology at OWU, she realized as she was looking at Edward Weston's Daybooks and Robert Frank's photo book The Americans that photography can also be art. [2] She worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the innovative Urban Outreach department which encouraged the awareness of art from 1972 to 1974. [2] She earned her M.F.A. in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1976. She studied photography with a sculptor while working with multiple artists and developing a thesis that addressed issues of time in photography. [3] Between 1978 and 1981, Verburg led an Artist Support Program at Polaroid Corporation where she invited painters and photographers to experiment with the large format 20 x 24 and 40 x 80 cameras. [4] In 1981 her career pivoted to teaching, when she accepted a visiting artist position at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. [5] Since then she has also taught at Yale University. [4]
In her photography, Verburg uses a large format camera and shoots life-size portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. She works in diptychs and triptychs, using vibrant color palettes. [6] In the 1980s she shot group portraits across multiple frames. [3] She began photographing Italian landscapes in the mid-1990s. [3] Other common subjects include dancers and time-based art. [7] Considering the evolution of her photography, Verburg notes that her practice "treat[s] photographs more and more like sculpture," considering the viewer's relationship to setting, scale and time. [7]
JoAnn would often take photographs of her husband no matter how or what he was doing. Oftentimes, her husband was not dressed. JoAnn states, "It's not that I didn't notice he didn't have clothes on in the pictures, but those terms of nude and naked to me felt like they are coming out of a dissertation on art." [8]
Verburg has held over 75 group shows and over 20 solo exhibitions, including those at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Kansas City Art Institute, and a retrospective "Present Tense: Photographs by JoAnn Verburg" at Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2007. [5] She is the recipient of multiple awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple fellowships from the Bush Foundation and the McKnight Foundation. [9] Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Minneapolis Institute of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. [4]
In addition to photography, Verburg has produced public art for the City of Minneapolis, the University of Minnesota, the Mill City Museum, and Art Park near Niagara Falls. [7]
From 1977 to 1979 she worked as project manager for the Rephotographic Survey Project, replicating frontier photography from the 19th century. [10] The focus of this project was to re-photograph sites that were previously shot by well known 19th-century photographers of the American West using the same vantage point, similar equipment and under comparable weather conditions. [3] When she was working on this project, she noticed that when you viewed the photos side by side, the pair suggested movement-the growth and development, and dissolution that occurred after the 19th century photographers made their pictures. [11]
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Edward Jean Steichen was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator, renowned as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the history of photography.
Berenice Alice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s.
Uta Barth is a contemporary German-American photographer whose work addresses themes such as perception, optical illusion and non-place. Her early work emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s, "inverting the notion of background and foreground" in photography and bringing awareness to a viewer's attention to visual information with in the photographic frame. Her work is as much about vision and perception as it is about the failure to see, the faith humans place in the mechanics of perception, and the precarious nature of perceptual habits. Barth's says this about her art practice: “The question for me always is how can I make you aware of your own looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at." She has been honored with two National Endowments of the Arts fellowships, was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004‑05, and was a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. Barth lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Esther Bubley was an American photographer who specialized in expressive photos of ordinary people in everyday lives. She worked for several agencies of the American government and her work also featured in several news and photographic magazines.
Bruce Landon Davidson is an American photographer. He has been a member of the Magnum Photos agency since 1958. His photographs, notably those taken in Harlem, New York City, have been widely exhibited and published. He is known for photographing communities usually hostile to outsiders.
Lynn Davis is an American photographer known for her large-scale black-and-white photographs which are widely collected publicly and privately and are internationally exhibited.
Alec Soth is an American photographer, based in Minneapolis. Soth makes "large-scale American projects" featuring the midwestern United States. New York Times art critic Hilarie M. Sheets wrote that he has made a "photographic career out of finding chemistry with strangers" and photographs "loners and dreamers". His work tends to focus on the "off-beat, hauntingly banal images of modern America" according to The Guardian art critic Hannah Booth. He is a member of Magnum Photos.
Stuart Klipper is an American photographer.
Lorna Simpson is an American photographer and multimedia artist whose works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 1990, she became the first African-American woman to exhibit at the Venice Biennale. She came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with photo-text installations such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal that questioned the nature of identity, gender, race, history and representation. Simpson continues to explore these themes in relation to memory and history using photography, film, video, painting, drawing, audio, and sculpture.
Lisette Model was an Austrian-born American photographer primarily known for the frank humanism of her street photography.
Linda Connor is an American photographer living in San Francisco, California. She is known for her landscape photography.
Mark Klett is an American photographer. His work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Jane L. Calvin is an artist based in Chicago, Illinois.
Carrie Mae Weems is an American artist working in text, fabric, audio, digital images and installation video, and is best known for her photography. She achieved prominence through her early 1990s photographic project The Kitchen Table Series. Her photographs, films and videos focus on serious issues facing African Americans today, including racism, sexism, politics and personal identity.
Alice Boughton was an early 20th-century American photographer known for her photographs of many literary and theatrical figures of her time. She was a Fellow of Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession, a circle of photographers whose artistic efforts succeeded in raising photography to a fine art form.
Barbara Crane was an American artist photographer born in Chicago, Illinois. Crane worked with a variety of materials including Polaroid, gelatin silver, and platinum prints among others. She was known for her experimental and innovative work that challenges the straight photograph by incorporating sequencing, layered negatives, and repeated frames. Naomi Rosenblum notes that Crane "pioneered the use of repetition to convey the mechanical character of much of contemporary life, even in its recreational aspects."
Nancy Rexroth is an American photographer noted for her pioneer work utilizing the Diana camera. In 1977, she published Iowa – the first printed monograph of work completed with a plastic camera.
Ruth Thorne-Thomsen is an American photographer who resides in Philadelphia. Important collections of her work are held by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. She was married to the photographer Ray K. Metzker until his death in 2014.
Susan Lipper is an American photographer, based in New York City. Her books include Grapevine (1994), for which she is best known, Trip (2000) and Domesticated Land (2018). Lipper has said that all of her work is "subjective documentary"; the critic Gerry Badger has said many describe it as "ominous".
Pao Houa Her is a Hmong-American photographer whose works are primarily centered around the history and lived experiences of the Hmong people. Her's photography consists of greenery and geographic images. She is also a professor at the University of Minnesota and teaches Introduction to Photography.
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