Steve Schapiro October 24 - November 24, 2001 ARTIST'S STATEMENT: My career in photography began in 1960 with personal documentary projects on "Arkansas Migrant Workers" and "Narcotics Addiction in East Harlem". The New York Times Magazine published my migrant photographs as a cover story which resulted in bringing electricity to a farm camp which previously had only kerosene lamps. In the 60's and 70's, I traveled extensively throughout the United States for Life and other magazines doing stories on American culture. I spent four weeks in the South with James Baldwin and became involved in many civil rights stories including the Selma March. I traveled with Bobby Kennedy on his Presidential campaign. I did photo essays on Haight Ashbury, the Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation, and Protest in America. I photographed Andy Warhol and the New York art scene, Jacqueline Kennedy, poodles, beauty parlors and the Apollo Theater. I spent time with high school students in California and the Mid-West. Some of my photographs were selected for the "Harlem On My Mind" Show at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1968, and were subsequently chosen by the Smithsonian Museum for its collection. In the 1970's and 80's I continued my documentary work but also did Hollywood movie posters and stories, such as the logo for Midnight Cowboy and the still photographs for The Godfather. ... For the last three years I have been the Contributing Photographer for American Radio Works, a division of Minneapolis Public Radio, doing on-line portfolios on such subjects as 'Viet Nam Vets', 'The Mentally Disturbed and the Prison System', 'Mississippi Summer 1964', 'Drug Trafficking in America', 'Racism in the Prison Systems' and 'Survivors of Jim Crow'. In August 2000, Arena Editions published my book American Edge, of black and white photographs predominantly of the Sixties. . . . Many publications singled out American Edge as one of the best photo books of the year.