William Wylie (b. 1957, Chicago) is an American photographer and filmmaker whose work considers the intersection of human activity and the character of place. His series A Prairie Season (2012) follows a six-man football team at Prairie School in the Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado, capturing the rhythms of practices, games, and community life against the backdrop of an expansive prairie landscape. Wylie earned his M.F.A. from the University of Michigan and is Commonwealth Professor of Art at the University of Virginia. His photographs are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and he has received awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship.
