New monograph release | Rebecca Norris Webb: Night Calls
December 10, 2020

New monograph release | Rebecca Norris Webb: Night Calls
December 10, 2020
Publisher Radius Books has released Rebecca Norris Webb’s Night Calls monograph. Studying at the International Center of Photography in New York, Webb first came across W. Eugene Smith’s Country Doctor, his famous Life Magazine photo essay. Webb was immediately drawn to the subject of Smith’s essay, Dr. Ernest Ceriani, a Colorado country doctor who was just a few years older than her father. She wondered: How would a woman tell this story, especially if she happened to be the doctor’s daughter? In light of this, for the past six years Norris Webb has retraced the route of her 99-year-old father’s house calls through Rush County, Indiana, the rural county where they both were born. Following his work rhythms, she photographed often at night and in the early morning, when many people arrive into the world—her father delivered some one thousand babies—and when many people leave it. Accompanying the photographs, lyrical text pieces addressed to her father create a series of handwritten letters told at a slant. Ultimately, Night Calls is a meditation on fathers and daughters, on memory and one’s first landscape, on care-taking of the land and its inhabitants, and on history that divides us as much as heals us.
Rebecca Norris Webb
Cloud, 2014
Chromogenic print
Rebecca Norris Webb
House Call, 2014
Chromogenic print
Rebecca Norris Webb
Ghost Portico, 2014
Chromogenic print
Rebecca Norris Webb
Cornfield, 2014
Chromogenic print
Rebecca Norris Webb
Wasp, 2017
Chromogenic print
Rebecca Norris Webb
Sparklers, 2014
Chromogenic print
Rebecca Norris Webb
Reverie, 2017
Chromogenic print
Rebecca Norris Webb
Offut Covered Bridge, 2019
Chromogenic print
Rebecca Norris Webb
Landscape with Frost, 2017
Chromogenic print
Rebecca Norris Webb
Corn, 2017
Chromogenic print
Rebecca Norris Webb
Blossoming, 2019
Chromogenic print