Terri Weifenbach
{{Short description|American photographer}}
Terri Weifenbach is an American fine-art photographer,{{cite web|first1=Rochelle|last1=Kirkham|access-date=2022-01-09|title='The May Sun': Cycle of life flowers in photo exhibition|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/08/03/arts/may-sun-cycle-life-flowers-photo-exhibition/|date=3 August 2017|website=The Japan Times}} 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{{cite web|access-date=2022-01-09|title=Terri Weifenbach|url=https://ccp.arizona.edu/artists/terri-weifenbach|date=27 November 2019|website=Center for Creative Photography}} and North Carolina Museum of Art.{{cite web|access-date=2022-01-09|title=April 12, 2001|url=https://ncartmuseum.org/object/april-12-2001/|date=11 March 2021|website=North Carolina Museum of Art}} She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.{{cite web|access-date=2022-01-09|title=New Guggenheim Fellows Reflect on Landscape Photography|url=https://time.com/3817823/newly-named-guggenheim-fellows-reflect-on-landscape-photography/|website=Time}}
Life and work
Weifenbach was born in New York City and raised in Washington, D.C.{{cite web|access-date=2022-01-09|title=Terri Weifenbach|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/terri-weifenbach/|website=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation}} She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1978.{{cite web|access-date=2022-01-09|title=Terri Weifenbach|url=https://art.state.gov/personnel/terri_weifenbach/|website=U.S. Department of State}} Since then she has lived in New Mexico, California and again in Washington, D.C., and now lives in Paris.{{cite web|access-date=2022-01-09|title=Terri Weifenbach|url=https://www.terriweifenbach.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=46680&tid=0&pid=0apid=1&gpid=1&ipid=1&AKey=PRGJQ8C4|website=www.terriweifenbach.com}}
Weifenbach photographs plants and animals and "uses the richness of gardens and parks as the site for her landscape images". Bookmaking is central to her artistic practice. Parr and Badger include In Your Dreams (1997) in the second volume of The Photobook: A History.{{cite book | author1 = Martin Parr | author2 = Gerry Badger | author-link1 = Martin Parr | author-link2 = Gerry Badger | title = The Photobook: A History, Volume II | place = London | publisher = Phaidon | year = 2006 | page = 44–45 | isbn = 978-0-7148-4433-6}}
She worked as a photographic printer from 1983 to 2006.{{cite web|access-date=2022-01-09|title=Episode 49: Terri Weifenbach|url=https://magichourphoto.org/episodes/2021/10/12/episode-48-terri-weifenbach|website=Magic Hour}} She was married to John Gossage for 14 years, from 1992.{{cite web|access-date=2022-01-09|title=An Interview with John Gossage on 'There and Gone'" (2000)|url=https://americansuburbx.com/2011/04/interview-interview-with-john-gossage.html|date=18 April 2011|website=American Suburb X}}
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
- 2015: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to work on Cloud Physics
Collections
- Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
- North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina: 1 print (as of 9 January 2022)
References
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External links
- {{Official website|www.terriweifenbach.com}}
- [https://magichourphoto.org/episodes/2021/10/12/episode-48-terri-weifenbach Weifenbach interview, Episode 49 of Magic Hour podcast, 2021] (audio, 36 mins)
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Category:American fine art photographers
Category:Photographers from New York City
Category:American women photographers
Category:21st-century American photographers
Category:20th-century American photographers