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Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere Movie Review by Lisa Blanck
Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere ran as a Documentary Feature at the 2025 Florida Film Festival. It was recently aquired by Abramorama pictures. Per the promotion team, the film will be shown theatrically in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Pleasantville, NY, and may expand further. This was the review that ran in conjunction with the festival. Now that the film is being released, InFocus-Magazine is resharing the review.
Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere – Doc Feature that I was fortunate to be able to watch at home because I could pause and examine every single still image in the film. For more than 60 years, Schapiro was the photographer/photojournalist whose name you may not know, but whose pictures you’ve seen on movie posters and in newspapers, magazines and history books. Even his white living room couch is famous, being used as a photographic backdrop for at least two different films. Deeply involved with and believing in the Civil Rights movement, among many other history-making events, Schapiro photographed the Pettus Bridge March, the March for Voting Rights with John Lewis and Dr. King. His photography was used in movie posters for Taxi Driver, The Godfather and Midnight Cowboy.
Schapiro’s images appeared on the covers of Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, People, and Paris Match. His love for photography wasn’t singularly focused on capturing the essence of the ‘beautiful people’ like Bowie and Barbra. He also passionately exalted the nameless - ordinary people doing ordinary things, his talent making these images extraordinary. Director Maura Smith celebrates the story humbly, yet joyfully, exactly the feeling you get from Schapiro himself.
