Today at the Center of Photography Lumiere brothers opened a retrospective exhibition of American photographer Steve Schapiro

Center of Photography Lumiere brothers
October 23 - December 9 2012,
Moscow, Bolotnaya embankment, 3, page 1

Today at the Center of Photography Lumiere brothers presents "Steve Shapiro. Living America "- the first retrospective of the American photographer Steve Schapiro in Moscow.

dashing in 1960 Shapiro has traveled across America from coast to coast to capture people, their lives and troubling questions. Its Features Specials were published in such magazines as Life, Time, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, People, Newsweek and Vanity Fair. Shapiro's intention was to make a portrait of the era, showing this time slice the iconic personalities and ordinary people, who later showed to the next generation of America. The exhibition includes more than 100 photos of the period, affecting the major events in the social, political and cultural life of the United States. The exhibition is divided into blocks, covering such topics as civil expression, portraits of icons of art and music scene, and the genre of street photography of the 1960s. Shapiro has been well received in different social circles, and its subject is Harlem drug addicts, and Hollywood celebrities. Despite such thematic differentiation, each of his work is fine-tuned composition and a perfect balance of black and white.

• Barbra Streisand with a Pearl Earring, Los Angeles. 1960
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• Woody Allen with an ant on a leash, New York. 1964
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Shapiro career began in 1961, during the the so-called "golden age of photojournalism." Shapiro, documentary and at the same time, the activist, was able to capture the addition and the flowering of the hippie movement and the protests against the Vietnam War protests of the civil rights of blacks in the U.S., including marches Selma - Montgomery for equal voting rights and the Washington march, during which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous speech "I Have a Dream." Later Shapiro was the first of the photographers at the murder scene of Martin Luther King, Jr., was his legendary photographs of the tragedy spread all over the world. All this makes the photo of Steve Shapiro incredibly relevant to today's Russia, it was in those early 1960's in the U.S. term on equal civil society. people defended this position by resorting only to nonviolent resistance, influenced and, ultimately, changed the history of the country .

STEVE Shapiro « Vote »(« Vote "). March for civil rights in Selma. 1965 Source: Press Release Center of Photography Lumiere brothers

STEVE Shapiro The campaign of Robert Kennedy, California. 1966 Source: Press Release Center of Photography behalf of the brothers Lumiere

turned his attention to Shapiro and bubbling art scene of the time: in the exposition You can find portraits of Francis Bacon and Rene Magritte, Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenberg. He literally documenting life studio Andy Warhol "Factory", has worked on many projects with Barbra Steyzand and David Bowie, has created the most famous portraits of Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Simon and Garfunkel, Tina Turner and Yves Montand. That he was able to capture the special character and charisma of such famous actors and directors, as Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Katherine Hepburn and Mia Farrow, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen and Roman Polanski. His "Heroes" was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Muhammad Ali, Robert Kennedy, Truman Capote, and Samuel Beckett.

STEVE Shapiro Rene Magritte, Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1965 Source: Press Release Center of Photography Lumiere brothers

STEVE Shapiro Dustin Hoffman and directed by Bob Fosse, Mayami. 1981 Source: Press Release Center of Photography Lumiere Brothers

STEVE Shapiro Truman Capote on the bed. Around 1963 Source: Press Release Center of Photography behalf of the brothers Lumiere

STEVE Shapiro Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick and the environment, New York. 1965 Source: Press Release Center of Photography Lumiere brothers

STEVE SHAPIRO Truman Capote with a cat, Holcomb, Kansas. 1967 Source: Press Release Center of Photography Lumiere brothers

STEVE Shapiro Andy Warhol. Hand, Los Angeles. 1965 Source: Press Release Center of Photography Lumiere Brothers

separate room of the exhibition "Living America" ​​special project dedicated to the - " The Godfather. Family Album ", which includes color photographs by Steve Schapiro made during the filming of the legendary trilogy, Francis Ford Coppola. addition to familiar images - Marlon Brando with the cat," dying "Pacino and famous" whisper ", the exhibit will include photographs, never previously unpublished.

In 1968, his photographs were selected Metropolitan Museum of Art for the exhibition «Harlem On My Mind». Works Steve Shapiro is in the collections of Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC), High Museum of Art (Atlanta), the National Portrait Gallery (Washington). Shapiro recently solo exhibitions were held in Los Angeles (Fahey /Klein Gallery), Amsterdam (Wouter van Leeuwn Gallery), London (Hamiltons Gallery) and Paris (Gallerie Thierry Marlat) . His monographic albums published by publishers Taschen, Arena Editions and PowerHouse Books.

The exhibition Steve Shapiro will hold a creative meeting and signing session.

STEVE Shapiro Girls under the bridge, Coney Island, New York. 1960 Source: Press Release Center of Photography Lumiere brothers

STEVE Shapiro taxi driver. 1967 Source: Press Release Center of Photography Lumiere brothers

STEVE Shapiro A woman with a poodle in a beauty salon in New York. 1961 Source: Press Release Center of Photography Lumiere brothers

STEVE Shapiro The motorcyclist and a poodle, New York. 1964 Source: Press Release Center of Photography behalf Lumière

Curator: Anastasia Lepihova

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