Willie Anne Wright
Willie Anne Wright is an American photographer.
Life
Wright was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1924.[1] She graduated from the College of William and Mary with a BS in Psychology, and from Virginia Commonwealth University with an MFA. She studied at the Maine Photographic Workshops and Visual Studies Workshop.[2]
She is an expert in lensless photography, working with pinhole camera images, solar prints, and photograms.[3]
Collections
Wright's work is held in the following public collections:
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.[4]
- Chrysler Museum of Art.[citation needed]
- Mariners' Museum.[citation needed]
- Southeast Museum of Photography.[citation needed]
- Smithsonian American Art Museum[5]
- New Orleans Museum of Art.[citation needed]
- Longwood University.[citation needed]
- University of Maine.[citation needed]
- University of New Hampshire.[citation needed]
Exhibitions
In 2015 her exhibition "Direct Positive" of narrative personal images from the late '70's to early 21st century was shown at Candela Books in Richmond, Virginia. She is most known for her exceptional use of the old technique of pinhole camera photography.[6]
References
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- Willie Anne Wright
- Civil War Redux: Pinhole Photographs of Re-enactments, by Willie Anne Wright | Ester Knows All Things VCUarts
- Summary of the Willie Ann Wright photographs, 1983 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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