Willie Anne Wright

Willie Anne Wright (born June 6, 1924) is an American photographer known for her colorful cibachrome and grayscale pinhole photography.

Willie Anne Wright was born Willie Anna Boschen, in Richmond, Virginia. Her father was a musician and sometime-artist.

She graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1945 with a BS in Psychology, and from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1964 with an MFA in Painting. She later studied at the Maine Photographic Workshops in Rockport, ME and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY.

She married and had three children.

Willie Anne began her artistic career as a painter, teaching art classes at the Jewish Community Center, and was influenced by one of her painting instructors, Theresa Pollak. For a while, she experimented with printmaking. By 1973, she began to focus more and more on photography. Inspired by her surroundings and personal life, her first works incorporated images of her family, friends, and Civil War reenactors. Well-known for her use of the old technique of pinhole, she is also an exceptional master in lensless photography, solar printing, and photograms.

Some of her more well known works include her “Civil War Redux” series, which focuses on local Civil War reenactors whom she followed around for several years, her “Pregnant Women” series, which features pregnant friends of hers, and “The Swimmer” series, which features women lounging by poolsides or in pools.

Wright's work is held in the following public collections:

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