Background
Willie Anne Wright was born on June 6, 1924, in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Her father was a musician and sometime-artist.
Willie Anne Wright was born on June 6, 1924, in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Her father was a musician and sometime-artist.
Willie Anne Wright earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia (1945), and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (1964). She studied photography at the latter school from 1972 to 1976 and at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, in 1974.
Willie Anne Wright has been a freelance photographer, painter, printmaker, and lecturer since 1964. Working mainly with pinhole cameras, she has designed a number of cameras since 1972 that accept both paper and film negatives. By 1973, Willie Anne Wright began to focus more and more on photography. Inspired by her surroundings and personal life, her first works incorporated images of her family, friends, and Civil War reenactors. Well-known for her use of the old technique of pinhole, she is also an exceptional master in lensless photography, solar printing, and photograms.
Some of her more well-known works include her "Civil War Redux" series, which focuses on local Civil War reenactors whom she followed around for several years, her "Pregnant Women" series, which features pregnant friends of hers, and "The Swimmer" series, which features women lounging by poolsides or in pools.
Still Life with Richard's Road #2
Still Life with LA Style
Gardens' Corner, South Carolina: Ruins of Old Sheldon Church - Women in White
King William County, Virginia: Woman in White by an Abandoned House
Cedar Mountain: Pickup Truck and Cannon
Antietam: Union Troops At Ease
Vicksburg, Mississippi: Vicksburg National Military Park - Yazoo River Batteries
New York, New York: Grant’s Tomb and Mosaic Bench
Willie Anne Wright has belonged to the Virginia Society for the Photographic Arts since 1976.
Willie Anne Wright married and had three children.