David Bowie used a Steve Schapiro photo for the cover of his Nothing Has Changed album. “It was 1974 when I first photographed David,” Schapiro once told rickkogan. “From the moment he arrived, we seemed to hit it off.' Schapiro died last week at 87.
What you would realize after spending but a few minutes in the delightful company of photographer Steve Schapiro is that he was present at some of the most important events of the 20th century and that he knew hundreds of newsmakers and stars.His life ended Jan. 15, when Schapiro died as result of pancreatic cancer. He wife Maura and one of his sons, Theophilus Donoghue, were with him. He was 87 years old.
“My wife, Maura, is from Chicago and has 33 first cousins, and they all live here,” he told me years ago. “This is a great city, a much easier place to live than New York or Los Angeles.” He became very close to some. Chevy Chase asked Schapiro and his wife to be the godparents of his daughter, and David Bowie used a Schapiro photo for the cover of his 2014 “Nothing Has Changed” album. “It was 1974 when I first photographed David,” he told me. “From the moment he arrived, we seemed to hit it off. He was incredibly intelligent, calm and filled with ideas.”
Schapiro was born in November 1934 and raised in New York City and first picked up a camera when he was attending a summer camp. As he told me some years ago, “I was 9 years old, and I loved clouds and took pictures of them, and then, watching the photos come to life in the dark room, found that there was magic in photography.” He kept at it during his teenage years, discovering Henri Cartier-Bresson and studying with W. Eugene Smith, a legendarily uncompromising photojournalist.
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