Peter W. Kunhardt Jr.
Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., is executive director of the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation and the Gordon Parks Foundation and series editor for Steidl/Gordon Parks Foundation publications. Recent museum exhibitions and catalogues in which he has been involved include Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story (2017); Gordon Parks: I Am You, Selected Works 1942–1978 (2016); Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem (2016); Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott (2015); Gordon Parks: Segregation Story (2014); Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument (2013); and Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967 (2012). He coedited the multivolume Gordon Parks: Collected Works (2012), edited The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln (2015), and coauthored Looking for Lincoln: The Making of an American Icon (2008) and Lincoln, Life-Size (2009). He is responsible for the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation’s acquisition of the archive of Life photographer Ed Clark.
Kunhardt has established a scholarship program and a fellowship program at the Gordon Parks Foundation. Scholarship partner institutions include: Purchase College, State University of New York; Pratt Institute; New York University Tisch School of the Arts; Ghetto Film School; National YoungArts Foundation; Harlem School of the Arts; Fashion Institute of Technology; Columbia Journalism School.