Tag: Steve Schapiro
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Steve Schapiro, Photojournalist Who Bore Witness, Dies at 87 – The New York Times
Steve Schapiro, Photojournalist Who Bore Witness, Dies at 87 He documented the civil rights movement and subjects as diverse as narcotics users, migrant workers and movie stars, seeking to capture their emotional heart. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/arts/steve-schapiro-dead.html Steve Schapiro, a photojournalist and social documentarian who bore witness to some of the nation’s most significant political and cultural…
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Steve Schapiro, Chronicler of 20th Century America, Dies At 87 | Blind
Steve Schapiro, Chronicler of 20th Century America, Dies At 87 Steve Schapiro, whose prize-winning photographs defined 20th century American life, died peacefully in his Chicago home on Saturday, January 15, from pancreatic cancer. He was 87. Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/steve-schapiro-chronicler-of-20th-century-america-dies-at-87-en Steve Schapiro, whose prize-winning photographs defined 20th century American life, died peacefully in his Chicago home on…
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Steve Schapiro Once Upon a Time in America – The Eye of Photography
Link: For years, Steve Schapiro was a photographer for LIFE magazine. Francis Ford Coppola noticed Schapiro’s work in 1972 and invited him to take pictures on the set of The Godfather, then continued with The Godfather II, The Godfather III, The Great Gatsby, Taxi Driver and Chinatown, among others. Schapiro worked extensively on the subject of cultural changes in American society…
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James Baldwin & Steve Schapiro, The Fire Next Time – The Eye of Photography
Link: First published in 1963, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America’s so-called “Negro problem.” As remarkable for its masterful prose as it is for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving…
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Steve Schapiro, Eyewitness – The Eye of Photography
Steve Schapiro, Eyewitness An extensive exhibition of photographs from key moments of the Civil Rights movement by American documentary photographer Steve Schapiro is starting on February 10 at Monroe Gallery, in Santa Fe.
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The Long Road from Selma to Montgomery
The Long Road Steve Schapiro’s rarely-seen photographs of the historic march. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/project/portfolio/long-road The nonviolent discipline of the marchers, the subject of a new film by Ava DuVernay, and portrayed here in Steve Schapiro’s photographs of the Selma-to-Montgomery march, became such a resonant chapter in the black freedom struggle that Barack Obama,…
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The Photo That Made Me: Steve Schapiro, Arkansas 1961 – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/06/steve-schapiro-photo-that-made-me/#1 TIME LightBox talks to Steve Schapiro as part of our series ‘The Photo That Made Me,’ in which photographers tell us about the one photograph they made that they believe jump-started their career, garnered them international attention, or simply sparked an…