The Writers | Portraits by Laura Wilson

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The Writers | Portraits by Laura Wilson
August 27, 2022 - January 1, 2023
Laura Wilson has photographed some of the most influential writers of our time. The exhibition features a selection of her powerful portraits documenting highly accomplished, award-winning writers, many of whom have their papers in the Ransom Center’s collection. Immersing herself in each writer’s own personal setting, Wilson reveals the details that have inspired their literary masterworks.
See stunning photographic portraits of J. M. Coetzee, Jim Crace, Rachel Cusk, Edwidge Danticat, Louise Erdrich, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Tim O’Brien, Zadie Smith, and Tom Stoppard, among others. The exhibition is drawn from her book, “The Writers: Portraits” by Laura Wilson (Yale University Press, 2022). Her photographs have appeared in “The New York Times Magazine,” “The New Yorker,” “Vanity Fair,” and “London’s Sunday Times Magazine,” and in many other publications. Wilson has published six books of photographs including “Avedon at Work,” “Grit and Glory,” “That Day: Pictures in the American West,” and “From Rodin to Plensa.”
The exhibition is generously funded by the Marlene Nathan Meyerson Family Foundation, Richard Groenendyke, and David and Ellen Berman.
The Ransom Center appreciates the generosity of our promotional partners: CultureMap, KUT 90.5 & KUTX 98.9, and Society Texas.
Image Credits
• Ta-Nehisi Cotes, American (b. 1975).
Photographed in New York, New York, January 2022. © Laura Wilson.
• David Hare, English (b. 1947).
Photographed in London, England, May 2015. © Laura Wilson.
• Zadie Smith, English (b. 1975).
Photographed in New York, New York, November 2013. © Laura Wilson.
• Sam Shepard, American (b. 1943 - 2017).
Photographed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2012. © Laura Wilson.
• Brit Bennett, American (b. 1990).
Photographed in San Diego, California, December 2020. © Laura Wilson.
• Marjane Satrapi, Iranian (b. 1969).
Photographed in Paris, France, July 2021. © Laura Wilson.
Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian (1927 - 2014).
Photographed in Mexico City, Mexico, April 2012. © Laura Wilson.
• Haruki Murakami, Japanese, (b. 1949).
Photographed in Oahu, Hawaii, February 2022. © Laura Wilson.
• Margaret Atwood, Canadian, (b. 1939).
Photographed in Toronto, Canada, April 2018. © Laura Wilson.
• Annie Proulx, American, (b. 1935).
Photographed in Saratoga, Wyoming, June 2011.© Laura Wilson.
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