Adam Harrison Levy
Adam Harrison Levy is a writer and freelance documentary film producer and director. He specializes in the art of the interview. For the BBC he has conducted interviews with a wide range of actors, writers, musicians and film-makers including Meryl Streep, Philip Glass and Gay Talese. He was the U.S. producer for “Selling the Sixties,” a cultural history of advertising in New York in the early 1960s and “Close Up,” about the artist Chuck Close. Levy is currently a contributing writer for Design Observer. He wrote the catalog essay for “Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945,” an exhibition at the International Center for Photography (2011), and “Saul Leiter: Retrospective” at the Deichtohallen, Hamburg (2012). In the fall of 2012 he co-taught a course in Visual Biography at Wesleyan University. Levy has an MA from the Royal College of Art/V&A History of Design course and a BA from Wesleyan University. In 2012 he was a Poynter Fellow at Yale University.
