A beautiful and moving collection of photographs by today's foremost literary portrait photographer, Beowulf Sheehan, whose work captures the essence of more than 200 of our best-known writers, playwrights, poets, journalists, and graphic novelists.
Beowulf Sheehan is considered to be his generation's foremost literary portrait photographer, having made portraits of nearly every living writer (some now no longer with us) from Roxane Gay and Ian McEwan to Jennifer Egan, Elie Wiesel, Jonathan Franzen, J.K. Rowling, and Toni Morrison. His portfolio includes more than 600 writers.
In AUTHOR Sheehan has collected and curated more than 100 of the most moving and revealing portraits of these great literary artists in environments that range from the studio to the forest to the streets of Italy and the subway of New York.
The book is driven by the images of the authors, but Sheehan's work is accompanied throughout with short pieces of text including his most memorable moments making these portraits, quotes from the writers, and excerpts from their work that complement the image.
The perfect gift for readers and lovers of portrait photography, AUTHOR is the only book of its kind to appear in more than a decade.
