Jerry Schatzberg

Template:Short description Template:Wikidata image 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. He photographed for magazines such as Vogue, Esquire and McCalls. He made his debut as a feature film director with 1970's Puzzle of a Downfall Child starring Faye Dunaway. He went on to direct films such as The Panic in Needle Park, which starred Al Pacino in 1971, Scarecrow, which shared the grand prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, The Seduction of Joe Tynan with Alan Alda and Meryl Streep, 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.

He was a member of the jury at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

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. 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.

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.

Personal life

Schatzberg was divorced in Ciudad 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. The couple had two children. At the time of the divorce, Schatzberg was widely known as Faye Dunaway's fiancé, but Dunaway left Schatzberg for actor Marcello Mastroianni in 1968. Schatzberg's 1983 marriage to French American actress Maureen Kerwin ended in divorce in 1998.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
1970	Puzzle of a Downfall Child	Yes	Story	Story co-written with Adrian Joyce
1971	The Panic in Needle Park	Yes	No
1973	Scarecrow	Yes	No
1976	Sweet Revenge	Yes	No
1979	The Seduction of Joe Tynan	Yes	No
1980	Honeysuckle Rose	Yes	No
1984	Misunderstood	Yes	No
	No Small Affair	Yes	No
1987	Street Smart	Yes	No
1988	Clinton and Nadine	Yes	No	Made-for-television film
1989	Reunion	Yes	No
1995	Lumière and Company	Partial	No	Documentary film
2000	The Day the Ponies Come Back	Yes	Yes	Co-written with Bob Cea

Television

Year(s)	Title	Episode
1992-1993	L'encyclopédie audio-visuelle	"Ben Gurion"

External links

• Official website
• Jerry Schatzberg papers, circa 1950-2016, Houghton Library, Harvard University
• Template:Trim/ Template:PAGENAMEBASE at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidata
• An interview with Jerry Schatzberg Festival Lumière, October 2011