Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.

PETER W. KUNHARDT, JR., is the Executive Director of the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation and The Gordon Parks Foundation. He is a co-author of Lincoln, Life-Size (Knopf, 2009) and Looking for Lincoln: The Making of an American Icon (Knopf, 2008). He is the co-editor of Gordon Parks Collected Works (Steidl, 2012) and Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967 (Steidl, 2012).He served as co-curator for the exhibition Lincoln, Life-Size (Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, 2010) and guest curator for Gordon Parks: Portraits (The Gallery at Hermès, New York City, 2009). In 2009 he helped establish the Nikon/Gordon Parks Scholarship and the HBO/Gordon Parks Film Scholarship, which are granted annually to young artists.