Jerry Schatzberg is both an acclaimed photographer and award-winning filmmaker.
Born in 1927 in the Bronx, New York, Jerry went on to attend the University of Miami. In the 1950s he began his career as an assistant to the successful fashion and advertising photographer Bill Helburn. At age 28, Schatzberg decided to go freelance and opened his own photographic studio on Park Avenue.
In the 1960s his studio became a hot-spot for artists and celebrities of all kinds including the Rolling Stones, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Faye Dunaway, Jimi Hendrix, and Catherine Deneuve, and his fashion photography was seen in VOGUE, McCall’s, Esquire, Glamour, and LIFE magazines.
Schatzberg’s portraits of Bob Dylan taken both in his studio and out in the freezing cold in the meatpacking district of downtown New York, were chosen for the record sleeve of Dylan’s 1966 double-album Blonde on Blonde.
His abilty to make his photographic subjects comfortable led to a career in filmmaking. After directing some commercials for television, in 1970 Schatzberg directed his first feature film Puzzle of a Downfall Child which starred his former girlfriend Faye Dunaway.
Schatzberg went on to direct more than a dozen feature films, including The Panic in Needle Park in 1971 with Al Pacino (in only his second on-screen appearance), Scarecrow in 1973 with Gene Hackman and Pacino (which was awarded the Palme d’Or at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival), and No Small Affair in 1984 with Demi Moore.
Jerry Schatzberg’s signed original photographs are highly sought-after among collectors and are held in several important private collections around the world. His photographs have been exhibited at the Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival in France, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
Books of his photographs include Thin Wild Mercury: Touching Dylan’s Edge (2006), Paris 1962: Yves Saint Laurent and Dior (2008), Women then: Photographs 1954-1969 (2010), and Dylan by Schatzberg (2018).
Jerry began offering select images from his Bob Dylan archive as signed limited edition fine-art photographs at SFAE in 2001. Over the years he has expanded his offerings to include his entire photographic archive.
A curated selection is shown below. Please contact us to inquire about availability of these, or any other works not shown.
Jerry Schatzberg lives and continues to work in New York.