Steve Schapiro spent his decades-long career photographing some of Hollywood's biggest names, but the photographs that meant the most to the late photographer were the ones he took of the leading voices in the Civil Rights Movement.
In the new film Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere, director Maura Smith looks back on the photographer's wide-ranging career through interviews with Schapiro, who died in 2022 at age 87.
Schapiro was on the scene to document many history-making moments during the Civil Rights Movement, including the third march on Selma, Ala., in March 1965, as well as Martin Luther King Jr.'s room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., just hours after he was shot and killed on the balcony outside of it.
