Designer: Wanda Hammerbeck
The Story: Original Signed Chromogenic Development Print (16” × 20”) in a vintage frame (36×48). This piece is one of a select few prints of her work, prints of this piece are in SFMoMA and the New Mexico Museum of Art. Her other work also hangs in the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the RISD Museum.
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Wanda Hammerbeck was born in 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska. She earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1967, followed by an MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1976.
Before fully committing to photography, she served as assistant to the Dean of Women at UNC from 1969–1971, then as director of the graduate center there. She began teaching photography at Holy Names College in Oakland, California in 1976.
She won the Juror's Award, first place, for her MFA exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1977, and received a Photographer's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979.
Based in Northern California, she became a well-known landscape photographer and a key participant in the Water in the West collaborative — a group of photographers examining America's complex relationship with water resources across the Western landscape. She works in both black-and-white and color to explore human relationships to the land.
Her notable works include The Origination of the Los Angeles River, Polluting the Grand Canyon (1990), Living Beyond the Resources (1991), and Water Presence-Absence (1986). Her work is held in the permanent collection of SFMOMA and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other institutions.
Designer: Wanda Hammerbeck
The Story: Original Signed Chromogenic Development Print (16” × 20”) in a vintage frame (36×48). This piece is one of a select few prints of her work, prints of this piece are in SFMoMA and the New Mexico Museum of Art. Her other work also hangs in the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the RISD Museum.
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Wanda Hammerbeck was born in 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska. She earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1967, followed by an MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1976.
Before fully committing to photography, she served as assistant to the Dean of Women at UNC from 1969–1971, then as director of the graduate center there. She began teaching photography at Holy Names College in Oakland, California in 1976.
She won the Juror's Award, first place, for her MFA exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1977, and received a Photographer's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979.
Based in Northern California, she became a well-known landscape photographer and a key participant in the Water in the West collaborative — a group of photographers examining America's complex relationship with water resources across the Western landscape. She works in both black-and-white and color to explore human relationships to the land.
Her notable works include The Origination of the Los Angeles River, Polluting the Grand Canyon (1990), Living Beyond the Resources (1991), and Water Presence-Absence (1986). Her work is held in the permanent collection of SFMOMA and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other institutions.
