Brownie Harris ~ American Icons: A 30 Year Retrospective

Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:41

CHARLESTON SC - Award-winning photographer Brownie Harris (www.BrownieHarris.com), described by journalist Bill Moyers as a true artist, will present his work for sale for the first time in a debut exhibition at The Market Pavilion Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina from November 17 through 19, 2006.

Harris’ 70-piece collection, “American Icons: A 30 Year Retrospective,” will feature a spectacular portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr. which currently hangs in the John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

“It was the first studio portrait done after the White House years, since the young Kennedy had been a small child,” said Rebecca Pierce, Chairman of the Kennedy Hyannis Museum.  “It is really very significant.  It served as a touchstone for the public in their grief over the untimely death of John F. Kennedy Jr.”

Hailed among the great American portrait photographers, Harris began his career in New York City at WNET-Thirteen where Bill Moyers and Dick Cavett asked Harris to shoot portraits of their celebrity guests.  Since then Harris continued to photograph people and location imagery and has captured some of the most celebrated icons of the 20^th century.  Portraits of Sophia Loren, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Paul Newman, Truman Capote, Rudolf Nureyev, James Earl Jones, and Bob Hope will be included in the exhibit.  Harris’ work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Town & Country, Forbes, and many other publications.