Beowulf Sheehan is a photographer based in New York who specializes in portraiture and performance photography in the arts and humanities. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1968 but was raised in South Florida and abroad by his American father and German mother. Beowulf Sheehan studied photography at New York University, at The International Center of Photography, and with photographers such as Greg Gorman, Antonin Kratochvil, and Platon. His early career assignments for Vogue Nippon’s Fashion Biography feature, for NYU’s Deutsches Haus writer-in-residence program, and for PEN America’s World Voices Festival of International Literature introduced him to writers and publishers, deepening his lifelong love of books through his photography. Beowulf Sheehan’s work has been published in pages of Esquire, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue and has been exhibited at the Dostoevsky Museum, the New-York Historical Society, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and many more.
Up for auction at the Center for Art Law is a signed copy of AUTHOR: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan, a collection of portraits of 200 writers from 35 different countries. The book features a foreword by Salman Rushdie and included photographs of writers such as Toni Morrison, J.K. Rowling, Patti Smith, Zadie Smith, and Elie Wiesel. It has received multiple stellar reviews. On the Today Show’s review of best gift books, Buzzfeed Books’ Founding Editor Isaac Fitzgerald said, “Not only is this a beautiful book for the reader or writer in your life – it’s a great gift – but it’s also a beautiful book if you want to discover new talent because [Beowulf Sheehan] has this vast array of basically what the literary landscape looks like right now through author photos.
