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Charis Wilson dies at 95

posted on November 24, 2009 at 10:06 AM MT, by Melanie McWhorter

Edward Weston, Edward Weston Archive/Center for Creative Photography
Charis Wilson pictured in Edward Weston's "Nude, 1936." .

Charis Wilson, who was lover, muse, model, amanuensis and wife of the photographer Edward Weston and the subject of many of his best-known nude portraits, died on Friday in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was 95.

Read the entire obituary by Bruce Weber in The New York Times.

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Photographer Pirkle Jones dies at 95

posted on March 24, 2009 at 12:53 PM MT, by Melanie McWhorter

Pirkle Jones was assistant to (and collaborator with) Ansel Adams, who introduced him to those in the upper echelon of photography, including Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange and Minor White. Jones documented Berryessa Valley with Lange and the building of the Paul Masson Mountain Winery with Adams, but he is most known for his images of the Black Panthers. The New York Times obituary on the life of Pirkle Jones includes a slideshow few images from the Black Panthers and other projects.

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