Rebecca Norris Webb

She was born in Rushville, Indiana and moved to the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1972 at the age of 15. She has authored seven photography books, which often interweave her photographs and spare text. These include her two monographs—The Glass Between Us: Reflections on Urban Creatures (2006) and My Dakota: An Elegy for My Brother Who Died Unexpectedly (2012)—as well as five collaborations with her husband and creative partner, Alex Webb: Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba (2009), Memory City (2014), On Street Photography and the Poetic Image (2014), Slant Rhymes (2017), and Brooklyn: The City Within (2019). My Dakota blends her spare text with her photographs of her home state of South Dakota where she came of age. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the George Eastman Museum, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, and internationally. My Dakota was first exhibited in 2012 at the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, South Dakota, and later exhibited at the North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks, North Dakota, (2013), the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, Florida, (2013), Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York City, NYC, (2013), Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, (2015), and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, (2015). In 2019, she was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Norris Webb teaches photography workshops with her husband and creative partner, Alex Webb.

Rebecca Norris Webb (born 1956) is an American photographer. Originally a poet, her seven books often combine text and images. For the past 20 years, she’s lived in Brooklyn with Alex Webb, and together they teach photography workshops for museums, universities, and arts organizations around the world.