{"id":845,"date":"2009-11-30T10:34:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T10:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=845"},"modified":"2009-11-30T10:34:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T10:34:40","slug":"charis-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"Charis Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to James Danziger on his ‘The Year in Pictures’ <\/a>blog I learnt recently of the death of Charis* Wilson, and he gave a link to her obituary in the New York Times<\/a> which gives a good idea of her life and the support she gave to Edward Weston, as muse, driver, writer and companion during their eleven years together.<\/p>\n

These were Weston’s most productive years\u00a0 and the book which she wrote – with Wendy Madar – ‘Through Another Lens – My Years with Edward Weston<\/em>‘ , published in 1998, I think gives a real insight into his creative processes – definitely something to be read alongside his sometimes rather pompous but often fascinating Daybooks<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Her writing is a vital part of ‘California and the West<\/em>‘ “with 64 photographs by Edward Weston<\/em>” and as well as the text of the book based on the detailed logs she kept on their journeys, she wrote the Guggenheim application that made it possible.<\/p>\n

Although biography can sometimes be a distraction from actually seeing and evaluating the work of photographers (and others)\u00a0 – and the intense fascination of many with Weston’s love life is perhaps a good example of this – it can also give insights into the work.\u00a0 ‘Through Another Lens<\/em>‘ I think does that for the partnership between Weston and Wilson that led to some of his best work.<\/p>\n

Of course Charis Wilson had a long and interesting life away from Weston – she was only 19 when they met, 30 when they separated and lived to 95.\u00a0 You can read a little more about that too in the NYT obit.<\/p>\n

* from the Greek\u00a0 meaning ‘grace’ and pronounced ‘Karis’ <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to James Danziger on his ‘The Year in Pictures’ blog I learnt recently of the death of Charis* Wilson, and he gave a link to her obituary in the New York Times which gives a good idea of her life and the support she gave to Edward Weston, as muse, driver, writer and companion … Continue reading Charis Wilson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-history","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}