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Schapiro's Heroes

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Mr. Schapiro is an icon. He has worked with famous people from the turbulant sixties and shares the amazing images with us. Each photograph brings back memories from that era and a picture here is truly worth a thousand words. The photography is sharp and clear, and every photo is a work of art. I can't imagine anyone having been around this many historical figures. I highly recommend this book to anyone who remembers the sixties, or wants an accurate perspective through timeless images.

"Schapiro's Heroes" takes us on a visual journey through the very public, but shrouded lives of some of the most influential figures of the 20th century. Steve Schapiro knows how to make an image speak. His craftsmanship is moving and inspiring. This is a great item for any fan of modern history, 60's pop-culture, and photojournalism.

Technology has developed to a point where we are inundated with images. Cell phones, digital cameras, photoshop.... all of these advances have helped us to see the world through the amateur's view. Quantity, however, is not quality. In many of those images, we are often left with the feeling that we are missing something. Pictures alone do not communicate to us. It is the artist, the person behind the technology who is finally able to touch our soul through the medium of a photograph. Steve Schapiro has the "touch," the pulse of our humanity, in the photographs of his most recent book. Iconic figures who we think that we know are shown anew in the photographs in Schapiro's Heroes. Muhammed Ali, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr.are all public figures that we think that we know. Open Schapiro's book and be re-introduced to the humanity and the innocence of seeing the familiar in a new and unique way.

When I first glanced through this book, I was expecting another photo expose on famous people. What I got instead was a very moving and provocative glimpse into the lives of people who shaped the second half of the 20th century. The sense of history, coupled with the artful beauty of the photographs, caught me by surprise. I find the work stunning and moving. No mere photo essay, Steve Schapiro's work is a chronicle of the power that art has to capture time.

Many of the moments Schapiro's Heros captures pre-date me. But one doesn't need nostalgia to love this book. His images are incredible and facinating and could hold anyone's attention even if you dropped from another planet and had no idea who the subjects were. The fact that the images are intense and striking glimpses at some of the most influential people in our cultural and political history is just a bonus. This book is lovely, captivating and downright gorgeous.

Great book,master piece, excellent gift for any one who lived from 1946 till now. You must see this guys work.

Open up HEROES and be touched once again by the people and events that made up your life.

It makes you wonder who is Steve Schaprio, is he living, working still, who is he shooting today?

I've been a fan of Steve Schapiro's work for a long time, but this is my favorite. Schapiro has an uncanny ability to make us see the iconic figures of American politics and culture in fresh and surprising ways. What's more, in these stunning photographs, he captures the moments in American life that have inspired us and given us hope. In this sense, these images are every bit as heroic as the title of the book suggests.

I got a look at an advance copy of Schapiro's Heroes and couldn't wait to order books for family, friends and myself. Photographer Steve Schapiro captures moments in the life and the life in the moments of some bigger than life people: Robert F. Kennedy, Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, Barbra Streisand, Ray Charles, Samuel Beckett and Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Schapiro's photos are spellbinding and David Friend's words are thought provoking. The combination is not only a walk down memory lane, but is also an inspiration to express the hero inside oneself. Unleashing all those heroes might lead the way to peace in the world.

The November 19th issue of Newsweek celebrates 1968 as the year that made us who we are. Why just look at a six page highlights essay, when you can actually GO THERE, WITH STEVE SCHAPIRO!! In depth, "Schapiro's Heroes" brings its readers back into the true grit of the 60's. RFK, Ali, MLK and many others step out of these pages and back into our hearts. This is the book you want to have on that table for all to see and look thru, for giving the kids and grandkids of all ages some far better rainy day or bedtime stories, and for helping to answer their question...."When you were growing up, who were the people that were really the good ones?" Best part of it all is, you can send them their own, with Amazon, in plenty of time for the holidays.

Steve Schapiro's book is a treasure that you must have if you love great moments of people and history. Steve Schapiro has the gift of capturing greatness that some of us are fortunate enough to see with our eyes but which is gone in the blink of an eye. This is not just another photographer's work. This is a classic part of everyone's life that you will look at often.