Tag: Steve Schapiro

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 moments and movements, starting in the 1960s with the historic struggle for racial equality across the Jim Crow South, died on Jan. 15 at his home in Chicago. He was 87.

January 27, 2022
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 Saturday, January 15, from pancreatic cancer. He was 87.

January 18, 2022
Steve Schapiro Once Upon a Time in America – The Eye of Photography

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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 in the 1960s and ‘70s.

January 10, 2020
James Baldwin & Steve Schapiro, The Fire Next Time – The Eye of Photography

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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 thematic threads of love, faith, and family into a candid assault on the hypocrisy of the “land of the free.” It is now republished by Taschen.

January 10, 2020
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.

February 7, 2017
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, in 2007, went to Selma to speak, at Brown Chapel, just weeks after declaring for the Presidency

December 15, 2014
The Photo That Made Me: Steve Schapiro, Arkansas 1961 – LightBox

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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 interest in photography.

August 6, 2014