Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Charis Wilson met legendary 20th century photographer Edward Weston when she was 19 and he 48. Their intense relationship -- both personal and professional, as she acted as his wife, model, writer, companion, and driver -- lasted until 1945, when she left him after his health and patience deteriorated. Wilson was certainly more than a static muse for Weston, as her literary talents helped secure him...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
SANTA CRUZ, California - Charis Wilson, who inspired photographer Edward Weston during an 11 year relationship and posed for many of his pictures, has died. She was 95. Wilson...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
"A free spirit who took up with Weston when she was 20 and he was 48, Charis (pronounced CARE-ess) Wilson posed for a number of his photographs, many of them nudes, but her involvement with his career went far beyond modeling. Wilson edited articles on photography by Weston and traveled extensively with him for his work."...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Ms. Wilson, who was lover, muse, model, amanuensis and wife of the photographer Edward Weston and the subject of many of his best-known nude portraits.
The Compass Rose (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
George Tice [1938-] occupies a position, historically, that follows closely the Second Generation of photographers in a sequence that begins roughly with the F64 Group (which included Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Alma Levenson, Brett Weston, and a half dozen others), Dorothea Lange and Paul Strand, in the early Thirties, followed by a second wave that included Morley Baer, Brett Weston...
Recently Banned Literature (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
California Classics The Creative Literature of the Golden State by Lawrence Clark Powell The Ward Ritchie Press Los Angeles (1971) [click to enlarge] Works and authors discussed: Anza’s California Expeditions , by Herbert E. Bolton; The Journey of the Flame , by Walter Nordhoff; Death Valley in ’49 , by William L. Manly; The Land of Little Rain , by Mary Austin; The Wonders of the Colorado...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
MANCHESTER, NH.- Brett Weston (1911-1993) was considered by many to be brilliant, visionary, prodigious, and among the most important photographers of the twentieth century. Yet, his achievements have often been overshadowed by those of his renowned father, Edward Weston. In the first major exhibition in 30 years to be dedicated to Brett’s prolific body of work, "Brett Weston: Out of the...
Makura no Soshi (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
In order to write didactic text for press prints for Anita Brenner's Idols Behind Altars by Tina Modotti/Edward Weston, I ended up spending the last few days reading Weston's Mexico and California daybooks, Tina Conger's study of Weston's Mexico years, and Anita Brenner's biography, written by her daughter. What I learned: Brenner studied at Columbia with Franz Boas and was a contemporary of Ruth Benedict...
Dragoncave (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
woodland stream, near Nelson, NH In my road journal entry of 4 May, this past roadtrip, I wrote out the realizations that crystallized my awareness that this was not the roadtrip I had thought it was when I firs set out. I accomplished photo and video, too, of course; but the real purpose of the journey was this pilgrimage to the places of artists and writers I've admired, and been influenced by. This...
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