| Laura Cunningham Wilson | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 13, 1939 |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Spouse | Robert Andrew Wilson (3 children) |
| Children | Andrew Wilson Owen Wilson Luke Wilson |
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 Magazine, London’s Sunday Times Magazine, Wallpaper and the Washington Post Magazine.
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Wilson was born Laura Cunningham and raised in Massachusetts, the daughter of Rosemary (née White) and Edward J. Cunningham.[1][2]
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) is a photographic essay about one of the last great Texas cattlemen. The New York Times wrote that the book has become “a classic of Texas history.”
Grit & Glory (2003) documents the energy and thrill of six-man football and the visceral rough-edged culture in which it is played in small Texas towns.
In 2000, Wilson was elected to the Texas Institute of Letters. She serves on the boards of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies and the University of Texas Libraries. She is also a member of the advisory councils at the Dallas Center of the Performing Arts, and the Dallas Institute of Humanity and Culture.
Wilson has lectured on photography at Harvard University, The International Center of Photography in New York City, The San Francisco Museum of Art and the University of Texas.
Wilson is currently working on three projects. The first is a collection of portraits and reportage of writers, the Writer’s Project, which will become a book and an exhibition. The second, Artists at Work, is a collection of portraits and reportage of painters, sculptors and architects, which will also become a book and exhibition. The third project, Making Movies, documents Hollywood directors, screenwriters, cinematographers and actors behind the scenes.
Wilson is married to Robert A. Wilson. They live in Dallas, Texas and are the parents of three sons, Andrew, Owen and Luke Wilson.