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Olive branches; Photographer JoAnn Verburg's Italian landscapes suggest much beyond their silvery leaves and gnarled branches.(FREETIME)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20010309
Author:Abbe, Mary

"Moby Dick is a story about a whale," the British writer E. M. Forster once remarked, reducing Herman Melville's great metaphoric novel to a fish tale.

Strictly speaking, JoAnn Verburg's new photos, featured in a show opening today at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, are pictures of trees. Like Melville's fish story, however, the ancient Italian olive and ilex trees that Verburg portrays in the exhibit "On the Road to Bazzano" are emblematic of ideas - of landscape, sensuality, endurance, time - that stretch far beyond their silvery leaves and gnarled branches.

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