STEVE SCHAPIRO: BEING EVERYWHERE

December 5, 6:00 p.m.; December 7, 2:30 p.m.; December 10, 6:00 p.m. | Sensitively directed by his wife, local filmmaker Maura Smith, STEVE SCHAPIRO: BEING EVERYWHERE documents the career of acclaimed photographer Steve Schapiro through his vast trove of images and his firsthand accounts of their making. Over six decades, Schapiro bore witness to some of the most significant social and cultural moments in modern American history. Schapiro began his photojournalism career by documenting addiction in East Harlem and then traveling to Arkansas in 1961 to photograph migrant workers. He went on to work for Life, Time, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, and People. He documented Robert F. Kennedy’s last Christmas with his family and captured key images of the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout his career, Schapiro photographed such notable people as Andy Warhol, Muhammed Ali, David Bowie, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, Rosa Parks, Ray Charles, and Barbra Streisand. In the 1970s, Schapiro began working as an on-set photographer and produced publicity and poster images for films such as THE GODFATHER, TAXI DRIVER, MIDNIGHT COWBOY, CHINATOWN, and FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF. Shot shortly before his passing in 2022, STEVE SCHAPIRO: BEING EVERYWHERE is a loving tribute to a man who was the quintessential "fly on the wall." 

Dialogue: Director Maura Smith in attendance.

Friday, December 5 - Director Maura Smith in attendance for a post screening conversation moderated by former Illinois governor Pat Quinn
Sunday, December 7 - Director Maura Smith in attendance for a post screening conversation moderated by Chicago-area broadcaster and photographer, Jason Marck 
Wednesday, December 10 - Director Maura Smith in attendance for a post screening conversation moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and biographer Jonathan Eig

The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu