Photographer Laura Wilson will talk with the Carter’s Executive Director, Andrew J. Walker, about her experience documenting Avedon’s travels and his creative process during the production of the photographs that would become In the American West. Following their conversation, both speakers will participate in a Q&A. Seating for the talk will be first come, first served.

American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided during the conversation.

Part of the June Second Thursday at the Carter.

About Laura Wilson

Laura Wilson (b. 1939) is a photographer and author whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, London’s Sunday Times Magazine, and the Washington Post Magazine. Her books include: Watt Matthews of Lambshead (1989, revised and reissued 2019), Hutterites of Montana (2000), Avedon at Work: In the American West (2003), Grit and Glory: Six-Man Football (2003), That Day: Pictures in the American West (2015), From Rodin to Plensa: Modern Sculpture at the Meadows Museum (2018), The Writers: Portraits by Laura Wilson (2022), and Roaming Mexico (2025). She was awarded the Royal Photographic Society of England’s Book of the Year for Avedon at Work.

Wilson’s latest project is an exploration of Mexico based on decades of travel across the border and will be exhibited at the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in the fall of 2025. In 2022, The Writers: Portraits by Laura Wilson, was featured at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin. Comprised of over 150 photographs and inspired by the classic photo essays of Life magazine in the 1940s and 1950s, the exhibition showed how 38 internationally acclaimed writers live and work.

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