Steve Schapiro, Photojournalist and Film Industry Photographer, Dies at 87

, a famed photojournalist whose work covering the entertainment industry spawned enduring images of films like “The Godfather” and “Taxi Driver,” died from pancreatic cancer at his home in Chicago on Sunday evening. He was 87 years old.

Schapiro began his pursuit of photography at the age of nine, beginning by capturing New York City. He went on to live with and study under photojournalist W. Eugene Smith. During the 1960’s, Schapiro’s photographs began to appear in publications like Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and others.

He also produced photo-essays with a sociological emphasis, reporting on subjects like narcotics addiction, Easter in Harlem, the presidential campaign of Robert Kennedy, migrant workers and Haight-Ashbury. Schapiro also considered himself an activist, covering stories related to the Civil Rights movement, including the March on Washington and the aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.

Schapiro’s books have been reproduced in various magazines and books focusing on the civil rights and motion pictures. Monographs of his work include “American Edge,” which recounts the political turbulence of the 1960’s, and “Schapiro’s Heroes,” which offers profiles of ten figures that the photographer collaborated with: Muhammad Ali, Andy Warhol, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, Ray Charles, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett, Barbra Streisand and Truman Capote.

Schapiro was launched into the world of museum exhibition after being featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 1969 “Harlem on My Mind.” He has been featured in programs about the civil rights movement and in one-man retrospectives. He continued to work late into his life. In 2017, Schapiro won the Lucie Award for achievement in photojournalism.

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