Vanity Fair Features Photography by Steve Schapiro ’55

Music photography by the late Steve Schapiro ’55, Bard alumnus and civil rights photographer, was featured in Vanity Fair. Schapiro’s career spanned fifty years, during which he captured historical events like the March on Washington and photographed on the set of movies including The Godfather. Vanity Fair featured his jazz photography, taken in the 1960s in Manhattan, including of musicians like Nina Simone, Miles Davis, and Bill Evans. The photos were featured alongside an homage to Schapiro by Sonny Rollins, a legendary jazz musician who passed away in May. “The photos that Steve Schapiro took of me at the Apollo have special meaning for me,” Rollins wrote. “The Apollo was like my high school, or I should say my college. I was there every week.”
The Photography Program at Bard College offers instruction in the medium while providing a historical and aesthetic framework for student development within the context of a broad-based liberal arts education.

Post Date: 06-09-2026