Minnie Weisz | |
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 Weisz in 2012 | |
| Born | Anna Alexandra Weisz [1] December 1972 (age 49) [2] Westminster, London, England |
| Occupation | Visual artist, photographer |
| Relatives | Rachel Weisz (sister) |
Anna Alexandra "Minnie" Weisz (born December 1972) is an English photographer and visual artist. She specialises in the camera obscura and adapts the technique to turn entire rooms into cameras.
Weisz was born in London. [3] Her father, George Weisz (1929–2020), was a Hungarian Jewish mechanical engineer. Her mother, Edith Ruth (née Teich; 1932–2016), [4] was a teacher-turned-psychotherapist from Vienna, Austria. [5] [6] Her parents left for the United Kingdom around 1938, before the outbreak of the Second World War, to escape the Nazis. [7] Scholar Rev. James Parkes helped her mother and her mother's family leave Austria for England. [8] Her mother's ancestry is Austrian-Jewish, Catholic Viennese and Italian; Weisz's mother formally converted to Judaism upon marrying Weisz's father. [9] [10] [11]
Weisz's maternal grandfather was Alexander Teich, a Jewish activist who had been a secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students. [12] [13] [14] Her older sister, Rachel Weisz, is an Academy Award-winning actress. [15]
Weisz received an MA in Communication Art and Design at the Royal College of Art and a BA in Graphic and Media Design at London College of Printing. [16]
She specialises in the camera obscura and adapts the technique to turn entire rooms into cameras, across Europe. She has described herself (with respect to her artistic activity) as an architectural detective. [17] [18] [19] [20]
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