Clickers & Flickers Photography Network: Steve Schapiro - Schapiro's Heroes: Photojournalist Moments From Ali to Warhol

SCHAPIRO'S HEROES: PHOTOJOURNALIST MOMENTS FROM ALI TO WARHOL
Presented By: STEVE SCHAPIRO , distinguished documentary photographer * Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 * Time: 6:30 - 10 p.m. * Location: The Castaway, 1250 Harvard Road, Burbank, CA 91501 MAP * Reservations: (626) 794-7447 (Required at least 5 days prior to the event)
Mr. Schapiro documented America for Life, Look, Time and Newsweek by traveling throughout America’s heartland photographing and recording cultural issues as well as America’s psyche during a turbulent decade, the 60’s and the years to follow. His photographic essays document America from east Harlem, to the migrant workers of Arkansas and the South with Robert Kennedy. His images are in the classic tradition of America’s greatest photographers: Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Diane Arbus. Schapiro started his photography career in 1960 with personal documentary projects. The New York Times magazine published his photo essay “Arkansas Migrant Workers” as a cover story that resulted in bringing electricity to a farm camp that previously had only kerosene lamps. In the 60’s and 70’s he traveled extensively throughout the United States doing stories on American culture. He spent four weeks in the South with James Baldwin and became involved in many civil rights stories including the Selma March. Schapiro travel with Bobby Kennedy on his Presidential campaign, did photo essays on Haight Ashbury, the Pine Ridge Sioux Indian/Reservation and protest in America. He photographed Andy Warhol, the New York art scene, Jacqueline Kennedy, poodles, beauty parlors and the Apollo Theater. His work has been exhibited in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is included in the Smithsonian Museum’s National Portrait Gallery. In the 70’s and 80’s Schapiro continued his documentary work along with Hollywood movie posters and stills for such movies as Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver, Parenthood, and the Godfathers films. For the past 8 years, Schapiro has been the Contributing Photographer for American Radio Works, a division of Minneapolis Public Radio, doing on-line portfolios on such subjects as “Vietnam Vets,” “The Mentally Disturbed and the Prison System,” “Mississippi Summer 1964,” “Drug Trafficking in America” and “Survivors of Jim Crow.” Schapiro was an exhibitor at the prestigious “Visa Pour L’Image” Festival in Perpignan, France, and has numerous gallery shows including a one-man shows at the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles, and the Mead Art Museum in Massachusetts. Steve was C&F’s guest speaker in January, 2002. His book, AMERICAN EDGE (2000), was voted one of the best photography books of the year by the Los Angeles Times. This fall PowerHouse books will publish SCHAPIRO’s HEROES an intimate photo-journalistic look at major iconic figures such as Muhammad Ali, Andy Warhol, Martin Luther King Jr, Robert Kennedy, Ray Charles and Samuel Beckett. Taschen books will publish as limited edition book “Steve Schapiro’s Photographs from THE GODFATHER.” Schapiro did covers for Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, as well as the first People Magazine cover and 50 other covers for People. His covers for Life included Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and Truman Capote. He did Barbra Streisand early record albums covers including “The Way We Were” and “Streisand-Superman.” In addition, he shot the cover and photographs for the “Jane Fonda Workout Book, the Stallone-Rambo image, collaborated closely with David Bowie, and worked on perhaps 400 motion pictures.
RESERVATIONS AND PAYMENT REQUIRED IN ADVANCE C&F members: $49 at least (5) days in advance. $55 less than 5 days prior to the event. Non members: $59 at least (5) days in advance. $65 at the door, only if space is available.