Web Work 9- Joanne Verburg

Joann Verburg lives in Minneapolis with her husband Jim who is a poet.
She says that her portraits evolved out of many years of photographing people, especially her husband.For 25 years she worked extensively with dancers and others in the time-based arts.
She made a name for herself in the the late 1970's with "The Rephotographic Survey Project." It's an exhibition and book on which she collaborated with Mark Klett, another photographer, and Ellen Manchester, a photo historian. They gathered more then 120 images by William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'Sullivan and many others in a largely uninhabited Western landscape in the 19th century, the rephotographed each place.
She grew up in northern New Jersey, and first became aware of photography while watching slide shows of family pictures taken by her father. At the age of 6 she took her first roll of film and shot it on a polar bear at the Baltimore Zoo. She studied at Ohio Wesleyan University and The Rochester Insitute of Technology.