RIP Steve Shapiro Photojournalist, Nikon RF magnet

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Beginning in 1961, Schapiro worked as a freelance photojournalist. His photographs have appeared internationally in the pages and on the covers of magazines, including Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, People and Paris Match. During the decade of the 1960s in America, called the “golden age in photojournalism,” Schapiro produced photo-essays on subjects as varied as narcotics addition, Easter in Harlem, the Apollo Theater, Haight-Ashbury, political protest, the presidential campaign of Robert Kennedy, poodles and presidents. A particularly poignant story about the lives of migrant workers in Arkansas, produced in 1961 for Jubilee and picked up by the New York Times Magazine, both informed readers about the migrant workers’ difficult living conditions and brought about tangible change—the installation of electricity in their camps.

An activist as well as documentarian, Schapiro covered many stories related the Civil Rights movement, including the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the push for voter registration and the Selma to Montgomery march. Called by Life to Memphis after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Schapiro produced some of the most iconic images of that tragic event.

More at

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/steve-schapiro-dead-photographer-1235155805/

His website if you want peruze his work -
http://steveschapiro.com/
 
I recognize many of his images, did not realize he was the creator. Thanks for posting. A loss to art and humanity.

Best,
-Tim
 
Wow... I didn't know him and his work. Thanks for posting and I like Helen said "May you be blessed with a Beautiful New Journey". RIP.
 
His photos are familiar but I didn't recognize the name until he died. Great lifetime work. And, yes, may he now forever have great light.
 
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