Laura Wilson (photographer)

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Laura Wilson
File:Laura Wilson 2015.jpg
Wilson at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
Born (1939-10-13) October 13, 1939 (age 84)
Occupation Photographer
Nationality American
Website
laurawilsonphotography.com

Laura Cunningham Wilson (born October 13, 1939) is an American photographer. Her photographs have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ, Wallpaper, Washington Post Magazine,[1] and London's Sunday Times Magazine. She has completed four books of photography and text: Watt Matthews of Lambshead (1989), Hutterites of Montana (2000), Avedon at Work: In the American West (2003) and Grit and Glory: Six-Man Football (2003).

Life and work

Wilson was born Laura Cunningham and raised in Massachusetts, the daughter of Rosemary (née White) and Edward J. Cunningham.[2]

She has completed four books of photography and text. Watt Matthews of Lambshead (1989) is a photographic essay about one of the last Texas cattlemen. In Matthews' obituary, The New York Times wrote that the book has become “a classic of Texas history.”[3] Hutterites of Montana (2000) documents the Hutterite communities of the American west.[4] Avedon at Work: In the American West (2003) is a portrait of photographer Richard Avedon (for whom Wilson worked as an assistant) showing his creative process, working methods, and range of subjects as he worked to complete In the American West.[5] Grit and Glory: Six-Man Football (2003) documents six-man football and its culture in small Texas towns.[6]

Wilson has lectured on photography at Harvard University, the International Center of Photography in New York City, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the University of Texas at Austin.[citation needed]

She is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.[7] She serves on the boards of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University[8] and the University of Texas Libraries.[9] She is also a member of the advisory councils of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts and the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.[citation needed]

Wilson is married to Robert A. Wilson. They live in Dallas, Texas and are the parents of three sons, actors Andrew, Owen, and Luke, and grandparents to six grandchildren through Andrew and Owen.[2]

Publications

  • Grit and Glory: Six-Man Football. Bright Sky Press, 2003. ISBN 1931721289.

Exhibitions

In September 2005, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas mounted an exhibition of Wilson's photographs from Avedon at Work.[10]

Photographs from the book Grit & Glory were exhibited in the Meadows Museum of Southern Methodist University in 2011.[6][11]

References

  1. ↑ "About Laura Wilson", within "November architecture events", Dallas Architecture Forum, November 9, 2011. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
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  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Exhibition notice for Grit and Glory, Southern Methodist University. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
  7. ↑ Newsletter, February 2005, Texas Institute of Letters. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
  8. ↑ "The Clements Center's Advisors", 2010–2011 report, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, p.36. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Advisory Council", University of Texas Libraries, January 6, 2011. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
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