Steve Schapiro Author & Illustrator

Richard Scheinin's work has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, and other national publications. A staff writer at SFJAZZ, he was the San Jose Mercury News' classical music and jazz critic for more than a decade and has profiled scores of public figures, from Sonny Rollins to Ike Turner and the Dalai Lama. He is the author of Field of Screams: The Dark Underside of America’s National Pastime (W.W. Norton), a history of baseball. Steve Schapiro (1934–2022) was an American photographer known for his photojournalism work and for capturing key moments of the Civil Rights Movement, such as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the push for voter registration, and the third Selma to Montgomery march. He is also famous for his portraits of celebrities and movie stills, most importantly from The Godfather (1972) and Taxi Driver (1976). Schapiro worked with many notable figures, including Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali, David Bowie, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr, Robert F. Kennedy, Barbra Streisand, Bill Evans and Samuel Beckett. Schapiro’s work is represented in many private and public collections and can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the High Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. In 2017, Schapiro won the Lucie Award for Achievement in Photojournalism.