Laura Wilson (photographer)
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Wilson at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
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| Born | Laura Cunningham |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Spouse | Robert Wilson |
| Children |
Andrew Wilson Owen Wilson Luke Wilson |
| Website | |
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Laura Cunningham Wilson is an American photographer. Her photographs have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ, Wallpaper, Washington Post Magazine, and London's Sunday Times Magazine. She has completed five books of photography and text: Watt Matthews of Lambshead (1989), Hutterites of Montana (2000), Avedon at Work: In the American West (2003), Grit and Glory: Six-Man Football (2003) and That Day: Pictures in the American West (2015).
Wilson was born Laura Cunningham and raised in Massachusetts, the daughter of Rosemary (née White) and Edward J. Cunningham.
She has completed five 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.”Hutterites of Montana (2000) documents the Hutterite communities of the American west.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.Grit and Glory: Six-Man Football (2003) documents six-man football and its culture in small Texas towns.That Day: Pictures in the American West (2015) photographs in the American west accompanied by Wilson's observations at the time each photograph was taken. Larry McMurtry wrote, "Laura Wilson has an ever-searching eye for the bleak beauty of the west- and for it's bleak reality too. That Day is a remarkable book."
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