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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Adam Harrison Levy is a writer and film-maker. For the BBC he has interviewed artists, actors, and writers. He was the U.S. producer for Selling the Sixties, a cultural history of advertising and Close Up, about the artist Chuck Close. He is the author of essays for Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945, at the International Center for Photography, and Saul Leiter: Retrospective. He teaches at the School of the Visual Arts.  In 2012 he was a Poynter Fellow at Yale University. 
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