Interview: Steve Schapiro Talks Photography, Bowie, And 21st Century Hippies-Chicagoist

10/17/2014

By Carrie McGath in Arts & Entertainment on Oct 17, 2014 2:45PMSteve Schapiro's photographs occupy and navigate a space that is deeply human and soulful, encouraging his subjects to feel able to open their own apertures and shred any facade. David Bowie, more often a series of personas than a man, is captured by Schapiro as rawly human, even vulnerable at times, even if he is in character. The works in Schapiro's exhibition, "Warhol, Reed, and Bowie" at the Ed Pashcke Art Center acts as an archive of this ability. Some of these images are iconic; Bowie Smoking a Cigarette once graced the cover of Rolling Stone.

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