Terri Weifenbach is an American fine-art photographer, living in Paris. She has published a number of books of

landscape photography Landscape photography shows the spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes ...

, often of plants and animals, gardens and parks. Her work is held in the collections of the

Center for Creative Photography The Center for Creative Photography (CCP), established in 1975 and located on the University of Arizona's Tucson campus, is a research facility and archival repository containing the full archives of over sixty of the most famous American pho ...

in Tucson and

North Carolina Museum of Art The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is an art museum in Raleigh, North Carolina. It opened in 1956 as the first major museum collection in the country to be formed by state legislation and funding. Since the initial 1947 appropriation that e ...

. She is the recipient of a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

Life and work

Weifenbach was born in New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. She graduated from the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...

in 1978. Since then she has lived in New Mexico, California and again in Washington, D.C., and now lives in Paris. 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''. She worked as a photographic printer from 1983 to 2006. She was married to

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for 14 years, from 1992.

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

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. 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

. 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. . A slipcase containing a 24-page soft-bound book each by

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, Weifenbach, and a 32-page prose poem by

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. 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

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Awards

*2015:

from the

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been ...

to work on ''Cloud Physics''

Collections

, Tucson, Arizona *

, Raleigh, North Carolina: 1 print (as of 9 January 2022)

References

External links

*
Weifenbach interview, Episode 49 of Magic Hour podcast, 2021
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