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FROM CREATOR OF POETIC IMAGES TO COMPELLING STORYTELLER, FEW ARTISTS CAN CLAIM TO HAVE CRAMMED AS MUCH INTO THEIR CREATIVE LIVES AS JERRY SCHATZBERG.
A former photographer for Vogue and Life magazines, and a New Yorker through and through, Schatzberg was at the centre of the city's cultural whirlpool in the Sixties, from where he captured candid photographs and intimate portraits of the generation's most notable artists, celebrities and thinkers.
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His subjects have been as diverse as there have been many and include: The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, Sammy Davis Jr, Andy Warhol, Harold Pinter, Roman Polanski, Robert Rauschenberg, Sharon Tate, Steve McQueen, Martha Graham, Fidel Castro, Ted Kennedy and, of course, Bob Dylan. Many of these images are included in Thin Wild Mercury.
In the Seventies, Jerry Schatzberg turned his creative talents to film and immediately became an influential figure in the renaissance of American cinema.
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