DONNA TARTT by Beowulf Sheehan
JOHN IRVING by Beowulf Sheehan
LESLIE JAMISON by Beowulf Sheehan
PATTI SMITH by Beowulf Sheehan
RON CHERNOW by Beowulf Sheehan

AUTHOR: Portraits of Writers from and beyond the pages of AUTHOR: THE PORTRAITS OF BEOWULF SHEEHAN

December 5, 2018 – January 25, 2019

Alan Koppel Gallery presents

AUTHOR: Portraits of Writers from and beyond the Pages of Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan

Alan Koppel Gallery, 806 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60610

Opening reception 6:00PM to 8:00PM Wednesday, December 5, 2018

AUTHOR presents a select body of work celebrating the vitality and diversity of literary luminaries in our society.  Working in the fields of drama, fiction, memoir, nonfiction, and poetry, these artists of letters are among the many making significant contributions to history and culture through the stories they tell.

AUTHOR is the companion exhibition to Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan, a monograph capturing the essence of 200 writers, historians, journalists, playwrights, and poets from 35 countries, from Roxane Gay to Masha Gessen, Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Karl Ove Knausgaard to J.K. Rowling, and Jonathan Franzen to Toni Morrison.  A treasured gift for readers and lovers of portrait photography, Author is the only book of its kind to appear in more than a decade.

Partial proceeds from both print and book sales will benefit BookUp, a program of the National Book Foundation to inspire reading by students in underserved communities across the country.  Reading isn't just fundamental.  It is a vital gateway to a successful life.  www.nationalbook.org/programs/bookup

Beowulf Sheehan is a photographer of figures and performance in the arts, entertainment, and the humanities.  Through 2018, he has photographed better than eight hundred biographers, journalists, novelists, poets, and playwrights from more than fifty countries.  His work has been published and exhibited internationally, in the likes of Elle, Esquire, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Time, Vanity Fair, and Vogue and at the Museum of the City of New York, Dostoevsky Museum, International Center of Photography, and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.  Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan, published October 9, 2018, by Black Dog & Leventhal, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, is his first book.

www.beowulfsheehancom/author

 

Tremendous thanks to all for this exhibition:

Çedilla & Co. www.cedilla.company

Lamin-8 www.lamin8services.com

PrintLab www.printlab.com

Seminary Co-op Bookstores www.semcoop.com