Laura Wilson is an American photographer. Her photographs have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ Magazine, London’s Sunday Times Magazine, Wallpaper and the Washington Post Magazine.
Wilson has completed four books of photography and text. Avedon at Work (2003) documents one of the great photographers of the twentieth century. Wilson was Richard Avedon’s assistant for six years and her photographs and journa...
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Laura Wilson is an American photographer. Her photographs have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ Magazine, London’s Sunday Times Magazine, Wallpaper and the Washington Post Magazine.
Wilson has completed four books of photography and text. Avedon at Work (2003) documents one of the great photographers of the twentieth century. Wilson was Richard Avedon’s assistant for six years and her photographs and journal entries show Avedon’s creative process, working methods, and range of subjects as he worked to complete In the American West.
In September 2005, The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas mounted a major exhibition of Wilson’s photographs of Avedon in the American West.
Yale University Press published Hutterites of Montana (2000). Historian David McCullough wrote “A book such as this – a book so clearly and genuinely extraordinary comes along rarely and only as a result of exceptional skill and dedication.”
Watt Matthews of Lambshead (1989)...
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