Audio Tour - Facing the Lens

Harrison Photography Gallery 365

1209 - Joann Verburg
Film in the Cities, Saint Paul, MN, February 24, 1982

JoAnn Verburg
American, born 1950
Dine Drawing, 1982
Five gelatin silver prints
The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund 82.131.1-5

JoAnn Verburg has been photographing since the 1970s, when she was a member of the Rephotographic Survey Project, which created new images based on the nineteenth-century landscape photographs by the likes of William Henry Jackson and Timothy O'Sullivan. She moved to the Twin Cities in 1981 and taught for a few years at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Made with a large-format camera, her portraits, still lifes, and landscapes are carefully considered and often selectively focused. She frequently photographs the intimate space shared with her husband, poet Jim Moore, and the trees of Italy, where they spend time. Verburg continues to live and work in the Twin Cities.