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Steve Schapiro - The worst is yet to come, New York, 1965
Steve Schapiro - The worst is yet to come, New York, 1965
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Steve Schapiro - Samuel Beckett while making "Film", New York, 1964
Steve Schapiro - Samuel Beckett while making "Film", New York, 1964
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Steve Schapiro - Sophia Loren, Italy, 1964
Steve Schapiro - Sophia Loren, Italy, 1964
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Steve Schapiro / Warhol / Castelli - Andy under the Silver Cloud , New York, 1965
Steve Schapiro / Warhol / Castelli - Andy under the Silver Cloud , New York, 1965
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CAMERA WORK is pleased to present an exhibition by the American photographer Steve Schapiro. The exhibition will open on September 10 and will show photographs from the series »Heroes« as well as exclusive pictures taken at the film sets of »Godfather« by Francis Ford Coppola und »Taxi Driver« by Martin Scorsese.
»The sixties were a defining era in America« (Steve Schapiro)
Muhammad Ali, Andy Warhol, Ray Charles, Martin Luther King, Samuel Beckett, Robert F. Kennedy – these people are not only connected with the sixties because it was one of the most thrilling decades in contemporary history but also because of their own prestige as heroes of an age and generation. Steve Schapiro succeeded in capturing in unique photographs the special flair as well as the characteristics of those »Heroes«, which are imprinted in the collective memory. The rousing dance movements of Ray Charles, the later to become renowned winning pose of 21-year-old Cassius Clay, or the impermeable aura of Andy Warhol: In his photographs, which elude any staging, Steve Schapiro manages to highlight the character and particular charisma of these personalities. Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights activist Martin Luther King, authors such as Samuel Beckett and Truman Capote, and fashion icons like Barbra Streisand and Jackie Kennedy, too, have made their mark in history among Steve Schapiro’s »Heroes«.
»Godfather« and »Taxi Driver«
Valuable and often highly praised components of Steve Schapiro’s work are the photo series taken at the film sets of »Godfather« (1972) and »Taxi Driver« (1976). Schapiro had the opportunity to exclusively attend the shootings and development of the nowadays legendary movies and to capture them from a unique point of view. The photographs in a unique way transmit the almost tangible atmosphere from within the key scenes of »Godfather« with Marlon Brando or Al Pacino — scenes which have made film history. Moreover, the diversity of the pictures is impressive: portraits, iconographic scenery with a highly dramatic impact as well as motifs reminiscent of movie posters.
This wealth of impressions also dominates the photo series from the set of »Taxi Driver«, starring Robert De Niro and 13-year-old Jodie Foster. Cinematic sceneries, stirring close-ups serving as photographic social studies as well as fascinating backstage shots provide for a striking and at the same timee heterogeneous insight into the movie. Both Schapiro’s photographs of »Godfather« and »Taxi Driver« attest to an appealing ambivalence between fiction and reality as well as to an exciting interaction between the medium of movie and photography. Therefore the pictures can be seen as an eminent part of culture history and as an artistic addition to two of the most significant movies in history.
Steve Schapiro
Steve Schapiro’s career as a photo journalist started in 1961. During the »golden age in photojournalism« he also took photographs of Robert F. Kennedy’s election campaign and was the first photographer at the location where Martin Luther King had been assassinated. Schapiro’s photos have been published in numerous magazines, for example Life, Time, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, People, Newsweek, and Vanity Fair and have been part of several exhibitions worldwide. Steve Schapiro is living in Chicago.
In cooperation with publisher TASCHEN, a book signing with Steve Schapiro will take place at the gallery on Saturday, September 10, at 3:00 p.m.
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