Rebecca Norris Webb isn’t just famed Magnum photographer Alex Webb’s wife. She’s also a poet and, especially, a photographer. Her photographs stand out for the same precise composition found in her husband’s work. But unlike him, she trains her lens on landscapes instead of men, using all kinds of living beings as organizational elements rather than main characters. However, Rebecca Norris Webb’s photographs brilliantly handle humor, lyricism and the poetry of lines.
In Boston, the Robert Klein Gallery and Ars Libri are presenting an exhibition to mark the release of her new monograph, My Dakota. The photographer roamed the United States in search of the wide-open spaces with which she made her reputation. It’s an exploration that became, following the unexpected death of her brother, an exploration of loss, or rather of her own loss, in the middle of the vast deserts of the American Midwest. My Dakota is like a private diary. We turn its pages delicately.
Jonas Cuénin
Rebecca Norris Webb, My Dakota
Until October 27th, 2012
Ars Libri
500 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02118
(617) 357-5212
