Eolake Stobblehouse blog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Edward Weston's most famous model, Charis Wilson , is dead at last, fifty years after the photographer himself. She modeled for many of his most famous nudes. What a gorgeous woman. And a photographer and writer too she was.
SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Author and Jewish Journal book editor Jonathan Kirsch blogs that his "very first experiment in the deconstruction and interpretation of sexual imagery" took place when, as a child, he found...
New york shopping deluxe card (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Who brings out the sensual-feminine in Alberta Ferretti? Early 20th-century snapper Edward Weston, that’s who. His fluffy clouds inspire her 2002 wafty silk chiffon.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
SANTA CRUZ, CA (AP).- Charis Wilson, who inspired photographer Edward Weston during an 11 year relationship and posed for many of his pictures, has died. Wilson died Friday in Santa Cruz at the home of a close friend, her daughter Rachel Fern Harris said. Charis Wilson died in Santa Cruz, California, on November 20, 2009, at the age of 95. She told her own story in “Through Another Lens: My...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
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...
Althouse (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
You know her as: The model and muse to Edward Weston: "He had been the master of the close-up of body parts," Ollman said of Weston. In "Dunes, Oceano," however, "the model is moving in space, there is no horizon line. It was a breakthrough for him, largely because of Charis' spontaneity. Her uninhibited style gave Weston a freedom that was vitalizing to him," [said Arthur...
Slobokan's Site O' Schtuff (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Charis Wilson, who modeled in more than half of celebrated photographer Edward Weston’s nudes, has died. She was 95. The New York Times reported Tuesday that Wilson died Friday at her home in Santa Cruz. … Wilson was born in San Francisco into a family of writers. She is survived by her daughter, Rachel Fern Harris. Rest In Peace, [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
SANTA CRUZ, CA (AP).- 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 died Friday in Santa Cruz at the home of a close friend, her daughter Rachel Fern Harris said. Wilson was Weston's model, muse and companion from 1934-1945. She appeared in more than half of Weston's nudes, including some of his...
AmicaCarmilla (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I have to stop blogging for a few days. Too much thinking enfeebled me. My osteopath recommended to use ice packs to ease the tension cluttering the channels to my brain... I have started my yoga training which took over my week. I need some time and space to digest all the information and sensations I have taken in in such a short time. Writing will resume at the end of the week, I trust.
WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Charis Wilson, who inspired photographer Edward Weston during an 11 year relationship and posed for many of his pictures, has died. She was 95.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Wilson was born in San Francisco to a novelist father and actress mother, and raised in Carmel, where she met Weston at a concert. She had just moved back to the coastal enclave after doing secretarial work in San Francisco and working as an actress.
Flavorpill San Francisco Events (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
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AmicaCarmilla (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
These luxury handmade suitcases by Globetrotter Ltd are a dandy alternative to Louis Vuitton's signature travel set. The Hello Kitty version is nifty and ironic. Her face, covered in ribbons, shouts *it's me, it's me not*. A bit like Magritte and his pipe: Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
Bernard Perroud (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Edward Weston. "Torso of Neil". 1925
The Compass Rose (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
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...
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