Lifetime Achievement
Spirit of Stonewall Lifetime Achievement The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to recognize an individual whose lifetime body of work has left a lasting major imprint on the LGBT community.
Michael Childers Michael Childers, recipient of the Spirit of Stonewall Lifetime Achievement Award, began his renowned photography
career when he studied with Robert Heineken and Edmund Teske in New York City. Childers created the mixed media work for the record-breaking run of the hit off-Broadway musical Oh! Calcutta! Childers subsequently worked for Sir Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre in London, and he remains the only American photographer invited to photograph productions at this prestigious institution.
He went on to become a founding photographer for Andy Warhol’s Interview and After Dark magazines. For Dance magazine, Childers produced many covers including those featuring the Joffrey Ballet, the Royal Ballet, and the Alvin Ailey Dance Company. He also co-authored the book Bejart: The World of Dance.
From his Melrose Avenue and Venice studios, Childers photographed more than 200 magazine covers, including
GQ, New York, TV Guide, Esquire, Los Angeles, Elle, Paris Match, Life, London Sunday Times Magazine, and both English and Italian Vogue. He created more than 150 album covers and film posters for major motion picture studios and worked as a special photographer on dozens of films, including Grease, Marathon Man, The Year of Living Dangerously, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Pennies from Heaven, The Terminator, Hammett, Torch Song Trilogy, Endless Love, The Champ, and Oceans 12.
In 2003, Palm Springs Desert Museum presented a forty-year
retrospective of Michael’s work titled Icons and Legends: The Photography of Michael Childers. The three-month show was enjoyed by more than 55,000 visitors. Michael has received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Hollywood Photography at the Temecula Film Festival (2004) and from the Provincetown Film Festival in 2004. In 2006, the Tom of Finland Foundation inducted Michael into their Hall of Fame for his erotic photography.
Childers has received the Crystal Lens Award from Palm Springs
Modernism Week (2013), the Distinguished Photographer Award from the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair and has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
In March of 2008, Childers received a star, presented by Lily Tomlin, on
the Palm Springs Walk of Fame. The star is for his work in photography, film and humanitarian causes. In 2014, Childers was honored with the Humanitarian of the Year award from Jewish Family Service of the Desert for his fundraising efforts on their behalf.
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