A Wild Life: A Visual Biography of Photographer Michael Nichols

About Melissa Harris

Melissa Harris is editor-at-large of Aperture Foundation where she has worked for more than twenty-five years including as editor-in-chief of award-winning Aperture magazine from 2002 to 2012. Harris has also edited more than forty books for Aperture. As a curator Harris has organized photography exhibitions for venues worldwide including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography Moscow; the Triennale di Milano; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice; and Visa pour lImage Perpignan. Harris teaches at New York University in the Tisch Photography and Imaging department and occasionally at Yale University. She served on New York Citys Community Board 5 for several years and is a trustee of the John Cage Trust. Michael Nick Nichols is an award-winning photographer whose work has taken him to the most remote corners of the world. He became a staff photographer for National Geographic magazine in 1996 and was named editor-at-large for photography in January 2008. From 1982 to 1995 he was a member of Magnum Photos. His previous books with Aperture are Gorilla (1989) with an essay by George Schaller; Brutal Kinship (2005) with an essay by Jane Goodall; and Earth to Sky: Among Africas Elephants A Species in Crisis (2013).