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Beowulf Sheehan
Sheehan at the 2018 Texas Book Festival
Born
Theodore Beowulf Sheehan

(1968-11-08) November 8, 1968 (age 56)
Clay County, Missouri, U.S.
OccupationPhotographer
Parents
  • Margitta Gertrude Dorothea
  • Christopher Michael Sheehan
Websitewww.beowulfsheehan.com Edit this at Wikidata

Theodore Beowulf Sheehan (born November 8, 1968) is an American photographer known for portraits of authors, artists, and celebrities.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Portraits by Beowulf Sheehan

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Author Portraits

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AUTHOR: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan is a collection of portraits of 200 writers from 35 countries; it was published by Black Dog & Leventhal on October 9, 2018.[10] Poets, novelists, and screenwriters photographed by Sheehan include:

Visual and Performing Artists

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Politicians

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Early life

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Born in 1968 in Kansas City, Missouri to a German mother and an American father, Beowulf Sheehan (born Theodore Beowulf Sheehan) was raised in South Florida and spent part of his childhood abroad. Limited in physical activities because of asthma, his early years were spent reading books and learning about art. In high school he photographed Miami Dolphins games and realized his love of the craft.[2][11][12][13]

Career

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After studying at New York University and International Center of Photography, Beowulf assisted other photographers while working predominantly in fashion for six years. Later opportunities to photograph the Fashion Biography feature in Vogue Nippon and to photograph the first PEN World Voices of International Literature introduced him to a number of writers, among them Salman Rushdie. Those experiences began a career of photographing figures from arts and culture for publishers, publications, academic and cultural institutions.[1][2][11][12][13][8][14][15]

Sheehan's photographs have been [16] exhibited at the Dostoevsky Museum, International Center of Photography, Museum of the City of New York, and New-York Historical Society, and have been included in the permanent collections of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the German Consulate General New York, the Museum of Chinese in America, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The Author Photo: Portrait Photographer Beowulf Sheehan on a Life Capturing Writers, a short film by Claire Ince and Ancil McKain, was named an official selection of the 2020 Venice Institute of Contemporary Art Fine Arts Film Festival.[2][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]

References

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  1. ^ a b Nagy, Kimberly. "Every Face Tells a Story: A Conversation with Photographer, Beowulf Sheehan". Wild River Review. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
  2. ^ a b c d Sheehan, Beowulf (2018). Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal. ISBN 978-0-316-51515-3.
  3. ^ Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100. Penguin Classics. 2011. ISBN 978-0-14-750785-3.
  4. ^ "U2 Vs Muse: Who Will Win the Festival?". Q. July 2010.
  5. ^ "Bobby Digital: Renaissance Everyman". Ghettoblaster. 20. 2008.
  6. ^ "Ai Weiwei: 'Pourquoi je ne rentre pas en Chine". L'Obs. February 2018.
  7. ^ "Center For Fiction Award Dinner". 2018.
  8. ^ a b "Extempore: Beowulf Sheehan". BOMB Magazine. 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
  9. ^ King, Stephen (2013-10-10). "Flights of Fancy". The New York Times. Retrieved Aug 5, 2020.
  10. ^ "Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan (Hardcover) | Politics and Prose Bookstore". www.politics-prose.com. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  11. ^ a b "All Of It". 2018-10-25.
  12. ^ a b "Frames Podcast - Beowulf Sheehan". 14 May 2020.
  13. ^ a b "Creative Mornings - Beowulf Sheehan".
  14. ^ "A Different Kind of Literary Festival". Publishers Weekly. May 17, 2019.
  15. ^ "The Picture Can Surprise: PW Talks with Beowulf Sheehan". Publishers Weekly. December 19, 2018.
  16. ^ "John Adams, Ron Chernow, Virginia Dajani, and David Sedaris Receive Highest Honors – American Academy of Arts and Letters". Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  17. ^ LensCulture, Beowulf Sheehan |. "Beowulf Sheehan". LensCulture. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  18. ^ "AUTHOR: Portraits of Writers from and beyond the pages of AUTHOR: THE PORTRAITS OF BEOWULF SHEEHAN - Exhibitions - Alan Koppel Gallery". www.alankoppel.com. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  19. ^ "Beowulf Sheehan, Author Info, Published Books, Bio, Photo, Video, and More". AALBC.com, the African American Literature Book Club. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  20. ^ BAM : the complete works. Serafin, Steven. (1st ed.). New York: Brooklyn Academy of Music in association with Quantuck Lane Press. 2011. ISBN 978-1-59372-046-9. OCLC 705568292.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  21. ^ "FINE ARTS FILM FESTIVAL". ViCA. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  22. ^ "Author. Subject. The Essential Light. The Personal Artistry of Beowulf Sheehan '90". Notre Dame Magazine. Winter 2018-19.
  23. ^ "Albert Gallatin". doi:10.3998/mpub.11334573.cmp.23. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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