Steve Schapiro for HRW
Steve Schapiro - John Lewis Clarksdale Mississippi - 1963 - B/W photograph - Edition of 12 + 2 AP - 30 x 40 in - Gallery price 12.000 USD - 100% of the proceeds to benefit Human Rights Watch
Steve Schapiro
- In what way is ART a tool for activism?
People relate to images more quickly than words
- In what way does your chosen piece for HRW reflect 2020?
John Lewis died in 2020 to enormous respect and loss throughout the country as a pioneer activist who, when I met him knew what he had to do in life, and then did it.
- What gives you hope?
Our new election and a growing change in attitudes, but it is uphill with the damage Donald Trump has done in support of vigilantes.
BIO
A prolific photographer and photojournalist, Steve Schapiro has covered major historical events and captured seminal moments, from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1963 march in Selma and Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign, to Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick in The Factory. “It was an incredible time to be a photojournalist because there was more of an emotional flow—an ability to do more emotional pictures that captured the spirit of a person,” Schapiro has said of working during the ’60s and ’70s. He credits Henri Cartier-Bresson as a major influence on his work, as well as his former teacher W. Eugene Smith. Among the many politicians and celebrities he has photographed are Mia Farrow, Martin Scorcese, and Barbara Streisand.