About Miss Charlie
Charl Lane Elias, aka Miss Charlie, was born in Texas in the late '60s. With a childhood hugging the Gulf Coast, her aesthetic was heavily influenced by living in New Orleans during the '70s, as well as the tapestry of cultures and eclectic underground music and art scenes pervading Houston in the '80s. Training in the fine arts included the Glassell Museum School, Rice University Summer School and private tutors. Pursuing the technical arts, Charl wrote her fist computer program in 1984. Eventually embracing photography as her medium in 1988, she was providing custom darkroom services, negative restoration and documentary photography for a private historic archive within a year of washing the fixer off her first print.
Moving to NYC in the early '90s, Mrs. Elias' first job there was with the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she was a member of the information services team that launched the Whitney's very first web site. Providing extended web content supporting exhibition grants, Charl also photographed the Breuer building and the Beat Generation exhibition for the web. She was an original member of the team digitizing visual records for the Whitney's Permanent Collection. She went on to provide digital imaging and interactive services to companies as diverse as Nomura Securities, the Sundance Channel, and Viacom Interactive Services.
Now working from her own studio in upstate New York, Charl has created a niche as Miss Charlie, offering modern boudoir photography for women. Mrs. Elias also offers commercial, fashion and editorial photography- for clients seeking images that are created with style and delivered with professionalism. Her business clients include such notables as Khymanyo Couture, Philippe Bevan International Salon, Nicole Messier Public Relations, Melissa Grattan's Make It Fit, Kim Klopstock's the Lily and the Rose, the Saratoga Winery and Patsy's Executive Cutters. Miss Charlie's boudoir clients travel from all over NY state, NJ, CT & MA.
Moving to NYC in the early '90s, Mrs. Elias' first job there was with the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she was a member of the information services team that launched the Whitney's very first web site. Providing extended web content supporting exhibition grants, Charl also photographed the Breuer building and the Beat Generation exhibition for the web. She was an original member of the team digitizing visual records for the Whitney's Permanent Collection. She went on to provide digital imaging and interactive services to companies as diverse as Nomura Securities, the Sundance Channel, and Viacom Interactive Services.
Now working from her own studio in upstate New York, Charl has created a niche as Miss Charlie, offering modern boudoir photography for women. Mrs. Elias also offers commercial, fashion and editorial photography- for clients seeking images that are created with style and delivered with professionalism. Her business clients include such notables as Khymanyo Couture, Philippe Bevan International Salon, Nicole Messier Public Relations, Melissa Grattan's Make It Fit, Kim Klopstock's the Lily and the Rose, the Saratoga Winery and Patsy's Executive Cutters. Miss Charlie's boudoir clients travel from all over NY state, NJ, CT & MA.