Thousand words. Portraits from the Key West literary seminar. Ediz. illustrata - Hardcover

This book celebrates the portraiture of Helsinki-based American photographer Curt Richter (born 1956), presenting his portraits of contemporary writers taken at Key West Literary Festival--among them Kay Ryan, William Gibson, Geoff Dyer, Calvin Trillin, Margaret Atwood, Michael Cunningham, Ann Beattie and Gore Vidal.

Curt Richter was born and raised in New York City and picked up his first camera at the age of 12. Those streets, movie theatres and museums were a fertile playground for anyone hoping to become an artist. He has received many grants and commissions including a Guggenheim Fellowship and commissions from the N.E.A. and N.E.H. His prints are in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. His first monograph, A Portrait of Southern Writers, was published in 2000. He moved to Finland as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in 1997 and continues to work and live in New York and Helsinki.