Minnie Weisz Explained
Minnie Weisz |
Occupation: | Visual artist, photographer |
Birth Name: | Anna Alexandra Weisz[1] |
Birth Place: | Westminster, London, England |
Birth Date: | [2] |
Relatives: | Rachel Weisz (sister) |
Anna Alexandra "Minnie" Weisz (born December 1972) is an English photographer and visual artist who specialises in the camera obscura technique. She is the younger sister of actress Rachel Weisz.
Early life and family
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]
Career
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]
Exhibitions
- King's Cross Stories, exhibition and film, Great Northern Hotel, part of the Arrivals season, King's Cross, London, 14–17 November 2007.[19]
- The Diary of a derelict Dairy, The Express Dairy Depot, Bloomsbury (prior to re-development), 20 June – 20 July 2008, part of the London Festival of Architecture.[21] Weisz curated the exhibition of works upon the subject of buildings and their stories of Bloomsbury.[22]
- Ubi sunt, 2011.[23] [24]
Publications
Editor with Rizzoli International Publications:
- A Picture History of the Grenvilles of Rosedale House by Mary Yelloly. Lyndsey Stainton. Preface by Simon Finch, Helena Bonham-Carter. Designed and edited by Weisz, 2007.
- Narciso Rodriguez by Betsy Berne. Co-edited by Weisz, 2008.
- Norman Parkinson A Very British Glamour by Louise Baring. Designed by Lee Swillingham/Suburbia. Edited by Weisz, 2009.
- Matthew Williamson by Colin McDowell. Edited by Weisz, 2010.
- WKW The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai by John Powers. Co-edited by Weisz, 2016.
Notes and References
- England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007
- Web site: Anna Alexandra WEISZ. Companies House, Government of the United Kingdom . 25 February 2019 .
- News: Rachel Weisz talks about starring in A Streetcar Named Desire . The Daily Telegraph . 1 August 2009 . 7 March 2012 . Mick . Brown . 12 November 2012 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20121112121841/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-features/5931197/Rachel-Weisz-talks-about-starring-in-A-Streetcar-Named-Desire.html .
- England and Wales, Death Index, 2007–2017
- News: The virtues of Weisz . . London . 16 November 2006 . 7 March 2011 . 11 November 2013 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20131111013342/http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/starinterviews/the-virtues-of-weisz-7180117.html .
- News: Rachel Weisz: 5 things to know about Daniel Craig's new wife . CBS News . 7 March 2011 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20110629012403/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-20074657-10391698.html . 29 June 2011 .
- News: Lipworth. Elaine. 20 November 2011. Rachel Weisz: 'I'm still a blushing bride. The Daily Telegraph. 18 June 2012.
- News: Gugliemi. Jodi. How Rachel Weisz's Mother Escaped the Holocaust – and Why It Connected Her to Her Latest Movie Role . 12 October 2016. People. 12 October 2016.
- News: Emma . Brockes . 27 June 2018. Rachel Weisz: 'My parents were refugees. Brexit feels like a death' . 10 June 2017. The Guardian.
- News: Lane . Harriet . Toast of the tomb . . 13 June 1999 . 12 November 2010 . London . https://web.archive.org/web/20100505040213/http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/1999/jun/13/2 . 5 May 2010 . live .
- News: Rachel Weisz thinks globally, and Italians win. 2A. Sarasota Herald-Tribune. 25 April 2001. 12 November 2010.
- Book: Richmond, Colin. Antony Robin. Jeremy Kushner. Campaigner against anti-Semitism: the Reverend James Parkes, 1896–1981. Vallentine Mitchell. 2005. 312. 978-0-85303-573-2. In the 1970s, Edith Ruth Weisz, the mother of Rachel and Minnie, wrote to Parkes about the rescue of her father, Alexander Teich. Parkes, along with Bentwich, had been responsible for bringing Teich out of imminent danger in Vienna..
- Book: Chertok, Haim. He also spoke as a Jew: the life of James Parkes. Vallentine Mitchell. 2006. 266. 0-85303-644-6.
- Book: Parkes, James William. End of an exile: Israel, the Jews, and the Gentile world. Micah Publications. 1982. 255. 0-916288-12-9.
- News: How I make it work: Minnie Weisz. The Sunday Times. 7 February 2010. 31 January 2011. London.
- Web site: Minnie Weisz: I am a camera . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220515/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/minnie-weisz-i-am-a-camera-5544932.html . 15 May 2022 . subscription . live. The Independent . 2 December 2021 . 28 June 2006.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120331101407/http://m.kingscrosscentral.com/a_message_to_KX King's Cross Central Ltd Partnership 2010–2011
- Web site: Greenwood . Phoebe . Images of echoes: photographer Minnie Weisz captures King's Cross . The Times . 2 December 2021 . 28 June 2008.
- Dominic Bradbury, "One last look", The Daily Telegraph, 3 November 2007. Retrieved 2 December 2021
- Dominic Bradbury – Interviews Minnie Weisz – Retrieved 6 January 2012
- ifa2008 (Design by Manha) Book: London festival of architecture. Retrieved 4 September 2011
- Book: NewsDetail. Retrieved 4 September 2011
- (2 August 2011) Last Night: Rituals, Screaming And Lucky Charms Andrew Soar (ed.)
- http://www.think-work-play.com/seen/rituals-screaming-and-lucky-charms/ Last Night: Rituals, Screaming And Lucky Charms