"Don't try to emulate those who hace come before you. It is crucial to have a sense of photographic history, but the photographers who have come before you have done their work. You are a new generation. It's your turn now." Steve Schapiro. Interview in Lens Magazine Published on December 2019. Issue #63
Legendary photographer and photojournalist Steve Schapiro captured some of the most important historical events of the '60s and '70s and continued to work in a documentary vein for the past 30 years.
Throughout his long career, Schapiro won the Lucie Award for Achievement in Photojournalism, and his work is represented in many private and public collections, including the Smithsonian Museum, the High Museum of Art, the New York Metropolitan Museum, and the Getty Museum.
Schapiro contributed to the world with his high proficient skills and knowledge until the very last day of his life. He was a genuinely remarkable photographer; May He Rest In Peace.
Steve Schapiro died peacefully on January 15, surrounded by his wife, Maura Smith, and son, Theophilus Donoghue, in Chicago, Illinois, after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 87.
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