Melissa Harris | The New York Review of Books

Melissa Harris

Melissa Harris is editor-at-large at Aperture, where she has edited over forty books, including David Vaughan’s Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years and Merce Cunningham’s Other Animals. She was editor-in-chief of Aperture magazine from 2002 to 2012. A Wild Life, her biography of photographer Michael Nichols, was published by Aperture in 2017. She is currently writing a biography of Josef Koudelka. (January 2020)

Merce Cunningham in Images

When I asked Merce Cunningham in the mid-1990s for feedback on near-final galleys of a book about him that I was editing for Aperture, Cunningham’s only response was: “Do there have to be so many pictures of me?”

January 11, 2020