Rebecca Norris Webb: My Dakota, 1st and 2nd Editions
A small, intimate book about the West and its weathers, and an elegy for a lost brother.
Photographs and text by Rebecca Norris Webb
Edited with Alex Webb and Darius Himes
Hardbound with jacket
9.75 x 8.5 inches
42 color illustrations / 116 pages
ISBN: 9781942185178
Signed First Edition: Sold Out
Signed Second Edition: Rare $150
In 2005, REBECCA NORRIS WEBB set out to photograph her home state of South Dakota, a sparsely populated frontier state on the Great Plains with more buffalo, pronghorn, mule deer and prairie dogs than people. It’s a land of powwows and rodeos, a corn palace and buffalo roundups. Dominated by space and silence, South Dakota’s harsh and beautiful landscape is sometimes prey to brutal wind and extreme weather.
The next year, however, everything changed for Norris Webb, when one of her brothers died unexpectedly of heart failure. “For months,” she writes in the afterword to this volume, “one of the few things that eased my unsettled heart was the landscape of South Dakota. . . I began to wonder—does loss have its own geography?”