MICHAEL CHILDERS' AUTHOR, AUTHOR PHOTO EXHIBIT OPENS TODAY AT HARVARD'S GUTMAN LIBRARY

World-renowned photographer Michael Childers’ Author, Author exhibit is a retrospective featuring intimate portraits selected from a series of more than 100 writers, screenwriters, playwrights and poets photographed by Childers from the 1960s through today.

Presented by The Arts In Education Program at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Courtesy Michael Childers / Via gse.harvard.edu

Childers is known for his fine art photographs of legendary movie stars, artists, and other iconic luminaries that first graced the cover of Andy Warhol’s’ Interview Magazine as well as more than 100 covers of various magazines around the world including Time, Life, Look, GQ, People, London Sunday Times, Paris Match, Elle, and English Vogue.

“The AIE program encourages students to explore the relationships between art, artists, and learning. This requires deepening our understanding of the nature of what it means to be an artist,” says Steve Seidel, director of the Arts in Education program at HGSE. “Michael Childers’ portraits in Author, Author reveal a new element of intimacy to these brilliant writers, and the chance to affirm or challenge perspectives that we all layer upon his subjects. This exhibition moves beyond what we think we know of writers by their words, and through Childers’ masterful eye, we come to see them, and their work as if for the first time.”

The opening on Thursday, October 29 (4pm - 5 pm) will feature an Artist Talk/Conversation with Michael Childers, author and film historian William J. Mann, and Steve Seidel, director of the Arts in Education Program at HGSE, with a reception to follow (5 pm - 6 pm).

Admission is free of charge and open to the public through November 20, 2015