Jerry Schatzberg
{{short description|American photographer and film director (born 1927)}}
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| caption =Schatzberg with Faye Dunaway at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival
| birthname = Jerrold Schatzberg
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1927|06|26}}
| birth_place = The Bronx, New York City, U.S.
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| occupation = Director
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| website = http://www.jerryschatzberg.com/
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Jerry Schatzberg (born June 26, 1927) is an American photographer and film director. After establishing himself as a successful celebrity photographer, he transitioned to making feature films. He is best known for his films The Panic in Needle Park (1971) and Scarecrow (1973), which won the shared grand prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
Career
Schatzberg was born to a Jewish family of furriers and grew up in the Bronx.Alex Kasriel: Interview Jerry Schatzberg with "THE JEWISH CHRONICLE ONLINE", November 27, 2008 He photographed for magazines such as Vogue, Esquire and McCalls.{{cite news |work=BBC News |title=In pictures: Dylan on show |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/5132662.stm |date=2006-07-03}} He made his debut as a feature film director with 1970's Puzzle of a Downfall Child starring Faye Dunaway.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904738,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221213757/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904738,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 21, 2008 |magazine=TIME |title=Predictable Embarrassment |date=1971-02-15 |first=Jay |last=Cocks}} He went on to direct films such as The Panic in Needle Park, which starred Al Pacino in 1971, Scarecrow,{{cite news |date=1973-07-27 |url=http://digitalnewspapers.libraries.psu.edu/Default/Skins/BasicArch/Client.asp?Skin=BasicArch&&AppName=2&enter=true&BaseHref=DCG%2F1973%2F07%2F27&EntityId=Ar00202 |title=Scarecrow not impressive |work=Daily Collegian (Penn State) |first=Diane |last=Nottle |access-date=2008-07-23 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175822/http://digitalnewspapers.libraries.psu.edu/Default/Skins/BasicArch/Client.asp?Skin=BasicArch&&AppName=2&enter=true&BaseHref=DCG%2F1973%2F07%2F27&EntityId=Ar00202 |url-status=dead }} which shared the grand prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival,{{cite news |work=Los Angeles Times |title=U.S. Film Shares Cannes Prize |date=1973-05-26 |page=B9 |quote=The Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix Friday was awarded jointly to the American film "Scarecrow" by Jerry Schatzberg and the British entry "The Hireling" bv Alan Bridges.}} The Seduction of Joe Tynan with Alan Alda and Meryl Streep,{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,947366,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325051218/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,947366,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 25, 2009 |magazine=TIME |title=Split Ticket |first=Frank |last=Rich |date=1979-08-20}}{{cite news |work=The New York Times |title=Screen: Alan Alda Writes and Stars in 'Joe Tynan'; Coping With Fame |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0F13FC385D12728DDDAE0994D0405B898BF1D3 |first=Janet |last=Maslin |page=C6 |date=1979-08-17}} Honeysuckle Rose with Willie Nelson and Dyan Cannon, Misunderstood (based on a novel by Florence Montgomery) starring Gene Hackman, No Small Affair starring Demi Moore, and Street Smart in 1987, which earned Morgan Freeman his first Oscar nomination.{{cite magazine |magazine=TIME |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,878447,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080408151600/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,878447,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 8, 2008 |title=Straight Shooters |first=Jay |last=Cocks |date=1971-08-02}}{{cite news |date=1971-07-14 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/14/archives/screen-schatzbergs-the-panic-in-needle-park-drug-addicts-trapped-on.html |work=The New York Times |title=Screen: Schatzberg's 'The Panic in Needle Park'; Drug Addicts Trapped on Upper West Side Kitty Winn and Pacino Are Ill-Fated Lovers |first=Roger |last=Greenspun}}{{cite web|publisher=Jerry Schatzberg's Official Website |url=http://www.jerryschatzberg.com/bio.html |title=Biography |first=Michel |last=Ciment |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070316073729/http://www.jerryschatzberg.com/bio.html |archive-date=2007-03-16 }}
He was a member of the jury at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite news |work=Film Stew |title=Cannes Opens with a Bang |url=http://www.filmstew.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ContentID=8684 |date=2004-05-13 |first=David |last=Michael |access-date=2008-07-23 |archive-date=2011-06-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606053732/http://www.filmstew.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ContentID=8684 |url-status=dead }}
As a still photographer, one of Schatzberg's most famous images was the cover photo of the Bob Dylan album Blonde on Blonde, released in 1966.{{cite news |work=The New York Sun |title=Unimpeachable Film |url=http://www.nysun.com/arts/unimpeachable-film/59312/ |date=2007-07-27}} A collection of Schatzberg's images of Dylan was published by Genesis Publications in 2006, titled Thin Wild Mercury.
In 2013, he was developing a Scarecrow sequel with writer Seth Cohen that was not made.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/karlovy-vary-jerry-schatzberg-at-578018/|title=Karlovy Vary: Jerry Schatzberg at Work on 'Scarecrow' Sequel|website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=1 July 2013|access-date=11 September 2023}}
In 2021, Schatzberg revealed his intentions to make one last film, admitting that he "[doesn't] know what it is yet." He sought out and was considering adapting Atticus Lish's novel The War for Gloria.{{cite web|last=John|first=Eric|url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/jerry-schatzberg-al-pacino-panic-in-needle-park-1234670939/ |title=Jerry Schatzberg Recalls Al Pacino's 'Ego Trip' After 'The Panic in Needle Park'|website=IndieWire|date=October 11, 2021|access-date=September 6, 2024}}
Personal life
Schatzberg was divorced in Cd. Juárez, Mexico in 1968 following eleven years of separation from wife Corinne, who had refused to end the marriage after having lived together for five years.{{cite magazine |magazine=TIME |title=Milestones |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,838382,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123012106/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,838382,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 23, 2008 |date=1968-05-17 |quote=Divorced. Jerry Schatzberg, 40, fashion photographer, novice film director and Faye Dunaway's fiancé; by Corinne Schatzberg; on grounds of incompatibility; after 18 years of marriage, two children: in Juárez, Mexico.}} The couple had two children. At the time of the divorce, Schatzberg was widely known as Faye Dunaway's fiancé,{{cite news |work=Los Angeles Times |title=Faye's Way |date=1968-03-10 |first=Jane |last=Wilson |page=N18 |quote=The door of Faye Dunaway's suite at the Hotel George V in Paris opened slowly and cautiously. I was confronted by a dark-haired man wearing a world-weary expression, a black sweater and a droopy Bolivian bandit's moustache. I guessed that this must be Jerry Schatzberg, 40-year-old fashion photographer and Miss Dunaway's true love of two years' standing. He looks about 30, and was once the hero of an article in the late New York Herald Tribune entitled, The Sweet Life of Jerry Schatzberg.}} but Dunaway left Schatzberg for actor Marcello Mastroianni in 1968.{{Cite book|title = Looking for Gatsby|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=a-9A_cXpH2kC|publisher = Simon and Schuster|date = 1997|isbn = 9780671675264|language = en|first1 = Faye|last1 = Dunaway|first2 = Betsy|last2 = Sharkey|pages = 186–187}} Schatzberg's 1983 marriage to French American actress Maureen Kerwin ended in divorce in 1998.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable unsortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Director ! Writer ! Notes |
|---|
| 1970
| {{Yes}} | {{Partial|Story}} |Story co-written with Adrian Joyce |
| 1971
| {{Yes}} | {{No}} | |
| 1973
| {{Yes}} | {{No}} | |
| 1976
| {{Yes}} | {{No}} | |
| 1979
| {{Yes}} | {{No}} | |
| 1980
| {{Yes}} | {{No}} | |
| rowspan="2"| 1984
| {{Yes}} | {{No}} | |
| No Small Affair
| {{Yes}} | {{No}} | |
| 1987
| {{Yes}} | {{No}} | |
| 1988
| {{Yes}} | {{No}} |Made-for-television film |
| 1989
| Reunion | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | |
| 1995
| {{Partial|Partial}} | {{No}} |Documentary film |
| 2000
| The Day the Ponies Come Back | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} |Co-written with Bob Cea |
= Television =
| class="wikitable" style="margin-right: 0;" |
| Year(s)
! Title ! Episode |
|---|
| 1992-1993
|L'encyclopédie audio-visuelle{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2706678/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_3|title = "L'encyclopédie audio-visuelle" Ben Gurion (TV Episode 1993) - IMDb| website=IMDb }} |"Ben Gurion" |
References
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External links
- [http://www.jerryschatzberg.com/ Official website]
- [https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990147137690203941/catalog Jerry Schatzberg papers, circa 1950-2016], Houghton Library, Harvard University
- {{IMDb name|id=0770234}}
- [https://archive.today/20130213094006/http://cle.ens-lyon.fr/26930670/0/fiche___pagelibre/&RH=CDL_ANG000000 An interview with Jerry Schatzberg] Festival Lumière, October 2011
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