Laura Wilson, Donny Baize, J.R. Greene Land and Cattle Company, Shackelford County, Texas, 1997

Laura Wilson (b. 1939) is an American photographer based in Dallas, Texas, known for her portraits of life in the American West. From 1979 to 1984 she worked alongside Richard Avedon as his assistant and documentarian on In the American West, and has since built her own body of work on ranchers, cowboys, Hutterite communities and the people of West Texas.

Her books include Watt Matthews of Lambshead and That Day: Pictures in the American West, and her photographs have appeared in The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. Her work is held by museums including the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.