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  • JoAnn Verburg

    pArts Gallery

    No matter how intimate the setting or how relaxed the subject, JoAnn Verburg takes pictures of her husband Jim Moore as if she didn’t want to be caught looking. If Verburg isn’t photographing him while he’s asleep, lost behind a newspaper, or watching TV, she’s partially concealed the camera behind a plant or a table. The variable focus, multiple views, and multiple prints of the same view only increase the almost obsessive quality of the work. Moore plays along, acting as if Verburg’s massive five-by-seven view camera were recording him from another dimension. Together they’ve created hundreds

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