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Steve Schapiro passed peacefully this Saturday at the age of 87. Today’s edition of The Eye of Photography is dedicated to him. Fahey/Klein Gallery […]…

Archives 2020 In the late 1990s, Rock and Roll photographer Jim Marshall introduced me to his personal friend and fellow photographer, Steve Schapiro. I […]…

Archives 2018 The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents the exhibition David Bowie. The Man Who Fell to Earth, which unites two prominent names […]…

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…

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,…

In 1966, While doing a story on Andy Warhol for Life Magazine, Steve Schapiro photographed Lou Reed and the Velvet  Underground, in a dilapidated Hollywood Hills castle where they were staying waiting to…

Steve Schapiro is the photographer behind countless now-classic portraits of rock stars, film stars and politicians from the 1960s and 70s. He is also an accomplished documentary photographer who recorded…

Robert Kennedy was the most imposing politician he ever met. And Johnny Depp is incredibly photogenic. Steve Schapiro (*1934 in Brooklyn) ought to know, because he has actually photographed them…

“As a photographer you are looking for the same emotional moments and design elements that might lead to an iconic image. The only différence is that in the ‘so called’…