Terri Weifenbach

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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]

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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

Books with others

Awards

Collections

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References

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