Wanda Hammerbeck
American, born 1945
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American, b. 1939 - Jan. 20, 2023 in Sugar Grove, North Carolina
American, born Italy, 1887 - 1948
American, born Denmark, 1899 - 1988
BiographyWanda 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 and an MFA in photography at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1976. From 1969-1971 she was assistant to the Dean of Women at the University of North Carolina and from 1971-71 she was director of the graduate center there. She began teaching photography at Holy Names College in Oakland, California in 1976. Based in northern California, she became a well-known landscape photographer and participant in the Water in the West collaborative that also included Martin Stupich, Peter Goin, Mark Kleet, etc. Hammerbeck was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979. She works in both black-and-white and color to explore human relationships to the land.