Charis Wilson, Edward Weston’s Photography Model, Dies at 95

She led a terribly interesting life. What a joy it was for us all that she met Weston and made some iconinc images.

Charis Wilson, Edward Weston’s Photography Model, Dies at 95

"In January 1934 Ms. Wilson was an intellectually inclined, brazenly adventurous young woman of 19 when she met Weston, who was then in his late 40s and a friend of her brother, Leon, at a concert in Carmel, Calif. They were drawn to each other instantly, and she began posing for him shortly thereafter.

“I knew I really didn’t look that good, and that Edward had glorified me,” Ms. Wilson said later, as recounted in “The Model Wife,” a 1999 study by Arthur Ollman of nine photographers and their images of their wives, “but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn’t wait to go back for more.'"