Anne Rearick
Born in Idaho, USA in 1960, Anne Rearick's humanist vision is documentary in nature, but also uniquely personal. Rearick works slowly, often photographing over the course of years, and in doing so, deepens her relationship to people and place. In all her work, Rearick celebrates beauty in the everyday and the full range human experience.
Rearick received a Master of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1990 and has worked as a photographer and teacher for more than 30 years. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, most notably a Guggenheim fellowship to photograph the culture of amateur boxing, the Prix Roger Pic from SCAM for her work in South African townships, the European Mosaique prize to explore rural communities of Italy and Scotland, a Fulbright fellowship to the Basque region of France and two National Endowment for the Arts/Massachusetts Cultural Council Grants.
Four monographs of Rearick’s photography have been published to date: Miresicoletea, rural life and culture of the French Basque country in 2003; Township, an exploration of post-apartheid South Africa in 2016; Sète 17, a collection from an artist residency in the French port of the same name; True West, a response to childhood memory and the myth of the American West, in 2019. Rearick’s photographs figure in many compilations of European Photography including De l’Europe, La Terre, Est-ce Ainsi Que les Hommes Vivent, Celebre Visages, and 80 + 80 photo_graphisme among others.
Public collections include the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Centre Nationale de L’Audiovisuel in Luxembourg, as well as museums in the United States: The Southeast Museum of Photography, the Rose Art Museum, the Boise Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
In 2014, Rearick was featured in the French documentary Dieuzaide, Regards En Partage, an homage to French photographer Jean Dieuzade, seen through the eyes of three contemporary photographers working in the humanist tradition. More recently, Rearick contributed footage from South Africa and France for director Terence Malick’s feature-length documentary, The Voyage of Time.
Rearick has been a member of Agence Vu since 1993 and is represented exclusively by Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris.
