Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (born 1952) is an American portrait
photographer known for his strikingly intimate portraits of world leaders and major cultural figures. The majority of his work is shot in large format, 11x14 inch black-and-white film and 8x10 color film. His images are widely published and he is a contributing photographer to Vanity Fair
.
Greenfield-Sanders received a B.A. degree in Art History from Columbia University
in 1974 and a M.F.A. degree from the American Film Institute
in 1977 in film. While studying film at A.F.I. he became interested in portraiture after the school asked him to photograph visiting dignitaries for the archive. Alfred Hitchcock
, Ingmar Bergman
, Billy Wilder
and Bette Davis
all gave the young student tips. Davis scolded him saying, "What the fuck are you doing shooting from below. Don't you know it's not flattering"? The two became friends and Greenfield-Sanders drove her around Hollywood getting advice on lighting and life.
Greenfield-Sanders has photographed such diverse figures as Orson Welles
, Monica Lewinsky
, George H. W. Bush
, George W. Bush
, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
, Madeleine Albright
, and Bill
and Hillary Clinton. In 1999, he exhibited "Art World" at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City. This show was the culmination of his 20 year career, depicting over 700 portraits.
Greenfield-Sanders gained much attention for his 2004 book XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits (ISBN 0-8212-7754-5). His 2006 portrait series of injured soldiers and marines back from the war in Iraq, has been reproduced and exhibited worldwide, from the Bjorn Wetterling Gallery in Sweden to the Donnell Library across from the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Greenfield-Sanders also makes films, including Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart about the musician Lou Reed
, which won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video
, as well as one on performance artist Karen Finley
and for HBO, Thinking XXX about the making of his porn actor portrait book. Greenfield-Sanders' 2007 project, The Black List, is a collaboration with Elvis Mitchell
of interviews and portraits of leading African Americans in the U.S. The film component of the project premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in January 2008 and the portraits opened in July 2008 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The Black List: Volume 2 aired on HBO in February 2009. "The Black List: Volume 3" aired on HBO in February 2010. Selected portraits from The Black List Project were exhibited at the Paley Center in Los Angeles and New York. In 2011, Greenfield-Sanders directed and produced with "The Latino List" which aired on HBO and was exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum.
Greenfield-Sanders is represented by Stockland Martel
.
he met the leading figures of the "Ab Ex School", including Willem de Kooning
, Larry Rivers
, Milton Resnick
, Lee Krasner
and Robert Motherwell
among others. In those early years he also started to photograph the emerging artists of his own generation, Cindy Sherman
, Julian Schnabel
, David Salle
, Richard Prince
and Peter Halley
for example. His art world obsession continued and he added art critics, art dealers, art collectors and art curators to his archive. Greenfield-Sanders' first one-man exhibition was in 1981 at The Marcuse Pfeiffer Gallery. Titled, "New York Artists of the Fifties in the Eighties", the show consisted of 40 portraits of the leading figures of the Fifties who were still alive. The exhibition was reviewed in the New York Times by Hilton Kramer
, the chief art critic for the newspaper. Kramer said, "Mr. Greenfield-Sanders has a wonderful eye for faces and a subtle understanding of how their characteristic attributes may best be translated into the language of the photographic print. Even if we did not know who his subjects are, this would be a very affecting exhibition. But since the subjects are who they are, this show is also something of a historic event-and a moving one, too, for anyone who has lived through the period that it recalls". This significant review in the Times gave the photographer an important career boost. Years later, in 1999, Greenfield-Sanders exhibited all the art world subjects who had sat for his camera over a 20 year period. There were 700 images in this show at The Mary Boone Gallery in New York. Full editions of all 700 images are now in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
.
, which dramatized the American porn industry in the 1970s. "In general, I found porn stars much more comfortable nude than clothed. They're energized, and more in control. My goal however was to humanize them, to show them as people, not objects". XXX included pictures of porn stars both clothed and nude in the same pose, a conceit inspired by the Spanish artist Goya. The thirty stars in the project were Sunrise Adams
, Briana Banks
, Belladonna, Seymour Butts, Christy Canyon
, Chloe, Nina Hartley
, Jason Hawke
, Chad Hunt
, Heather Hunter
, Jenna Jameson
(who is on the front cover of the book), Jesse Jane
, Janine Lindemulder
, Ron Jeremy
, Jeremy Jordan
, Kira Kener
, Reina Leone
, Michael Lucas, Gina Lynn
, Ginger Lynn
, Sean Michaels
, Peter North, Tera Patrick
, Mari Possa
, Lukas Ridgeston
, Tawny Roberts
, Savanna Samson
, Aiden Shaw
, Lexington Steele
, and May Ling Su. The book also featured essays from Gore Vidal
, Salman Rushdie, John Malkovich
, Francine du Plessix Gray
, Karen Finley
, Nancy Friday
, Nina Hartley
, A.M. Homes, Richard Johnson
, Wayne Koestenbaum
, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
, JT Leroy
, Lou Reed
, Whitley Strieber
, John Waters
and Faye Wattleton
.
Greenfield-Sanders produced and directed Thinking XXX
, a film for HBO
which chronicled the making of the book. It was released on DVD in the summer of 2006. Thinking XXX was edited by Lukas Hauser. It won three awards at the national book award conference in 2007.
, Chris Rock
, Colin Powell
, Dawn Staley
, Faye Wattleton
, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
, Keenen Ivory Wayans
, Lorna Simpson
, Louis Gossett, Jr.
, Mahlon Duckett, Marc Morial
, Rev. Al Sharpton, Richard D. Parsons, Russell Simmons
, Sean Combs
, Serena Williams
, Slash
, Steve Stoute
, Susan Rice, Suzan-Lori Parks
, Thelma Golden, Toni Morrison
, Vernon Jordan, William Rice, and Zane
and will travel to other museums nationwide including Brooklyn Museum
in fall 2008. On August 25, 2008, the film The Black List: Volume 1
aired on HBO and on September 16, 2008, Simon and Schuster's Atria published The Black List, with an introduction by Elvis Mitchell, as well as all of Greenfield-Sanders' portraits from the project. A slideshow of the images can be seen on Greenfield-Sanders' website.
All 50 images from The Black List series were exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery in 2011.
After the success of Volume 1, HBO commissioned The Black List: Volume 2, which included Angela Davis
, Bishop Barbara Harris, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Charley Pride
, Dr. Valerie Montgomery-Rice, Governor Deval Patrick
, Kara Walker
, Laurence Fishburne
, Majora Carter
, Maya Rudolph
, Melvin Van Peebles
, Patrick Robinson
, Rza
, Suzanne De Passe
, and Tyler Perry
. In February 2010, The Black List: Volume 3 aired on HBO. Included in the third edition were Whoopi Goldberg
, Michael Lomax
, Hill Harper
, Beverly Johnson
, Debra Lee, Lee Daniels
, LaTanya Richardson
, and John Legend
.
, Sandra Cisneros
, Cesar Conde
, Ralph de la Vega
, Gloria Estefan
, Emilio Estefan
, Giselle Fernandez
, America Ferrera
, Nely Galan
, Jose Hernandez
, Maria Hinojosa
, Consuelo Kickbusch, John Leguizamo
, Eva Longoria
, Senator Bob Menendez, Janet Murguia
, Pitbull
, Chi Chi Rodriguez, Anthony D. Romero, Eddie Sotelo, Sonia Sotomayor
, Julie Stav, Christy Turlington
, Dr. Marta Morena Vega, Raul Yzaguirre
.
Portrait
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photographer known for his strikingly intimate portraits of world leaders and major cultural figures. The majority of his work is shot in large format, 11x14 inch black-and-white film and 8x10 color film. His images are widely published and he is a contributing photographer to Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
.
Greenfield-Sanders received a B.A. degree in Art History from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
in 1974 and a M.F.A. degree from the American Film Institute
American Film Institute
The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act...
in 1977 in film. While studying film at A.F.I. he became interested in portraiture after the school asked him to photograph visiting dignitaries for the archive. Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
, Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...
, Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder was an Austro-Hungarian born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age...
and Bette Davis
Bette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional...
all gave the young student tips. Davis scolded him saying, "What the fuck are you doing shooting from below. Don't you know it's not flattering"? The two became friends and Greenfield-Sanders drove her around Hollywood getting advice on lighting and life.
Greenfield-Sanders has photographed such diverse figures as Orson Welles
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...
, Monica Lewinsky
Monica Lewinsky
Monica Samille Lewinsky is an American woman with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an "improper relationship" while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996...
, George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
, George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She is the second female justice and the first Jewish female justice.She is generally viewed as belonging to...
, Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Korbelová Albright is the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State. She was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99–0...
, and Bill
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
and Hillary Clinton. In 1999, he exhibited "Art World" at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City. This show was the culmination of his 20 year career, depicting over 700 portraits.
Greenfield-Sanders gained much attention for his 2004 book XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits (ISBN 0-8212-7754-5). His 2006 portrait series of injured soldiers and marines back from the war in Iraq, has been reproduced and exhibited worldwide, from the Bjorn Wetterling Gallery in Sweden to the Donnell Library across from the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Greenfield-Sanders also makes films, including Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart about the musician Lou Reed
Lou Reed
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
, which won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video
Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video
The Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video is an accolade presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally named the Gramophone Awards, to performers, directors, and producers of quality videos or musical programs...
, as well as one on performance artist Karen Finley
Karen Finley
Karen Finley is an American performance artist, whose theatrical pieces and recordings have often been labelled "obscene" due to their graphic depictions of sexuality, abuse, and disenfranchisement...
and for HBO, Thinking XXX about the making of his porn actor portrait book. Greenfield-Sanders' 2007 project, The Black List, is a collaboration with Elvis Mitchell
Elvis Mitchell
Elvis Mitchell is an American film critic, host of the public radio show The Treatment, and visiting lecturer at Harvard University. He has served as a film critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the LA Weekly, The Detroit Free Press, and The New York Times...
of interviews and portraits of leading African Americans in the U.S. The film component of the project premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in January 2008 and the portraits opened in July 2008 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The Black List: Volume 2 aired on HBO in February 2009. "The Black List: Volume 3" aired on HBO in February 2010. Selected portraits from The Black List Project were exhibited at the Paley Center in Los Angeles and New York. In 2011, Greenfield-Sanders directed and produced with "The Latino List" which aired on HBO and was exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum.
Greenfield-Sanders is represented by Stockland Martel
Stockland Martel
Stockland Martel is a photo-representation agency headquartered in New York and founded in 1983 by Bill Stockland and Maureen Martel . The first person they signed was Walter Iooss, and in the years since they have developed a diverse international roster of award-winning photographers...
.
Art World
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders started out photographing artists. Through his father-in-law, Abstract Expressionist painter Joop SandersJoop Sanders
Joop Sanders is a painter and founding member of the American Abstract Expressionist group. He is the youngest member of the first generation of the New York School. He exhibited in the legendary "9th Street Art Exhibition", otherwise known as the 9th St. Show, May 21-June 10, 1951 along with...
he met the leading figures of the "Ab Ex School", including Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands....
, Larry Rivers
Larry Rivers
Larry Rivers was an American artist, musician, filmmaker and occasional actor. Rivers resided and maintained studios in New York City, Southampton, New York and Zihuatanejo, Mexico.-Biography:...
, Milton Resnick
Milton Resnick
Milton Resnick was a major abstract expressionist painter and teacher known for his mystical, abstract and figurative paintings. Born in Bratslav, Russia, he emigrated to the United States in 1922.-Biography:...
, Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner was an influential abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. On October 25, 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the Abstract Expressionism movement....
and Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School , which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston....
among others. In those early years he also started to photograph the emerging artists of his own generation, Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London in and Metro Pictures gallery in...
, Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel is an American artist and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates....
, David Salle
David Salle
David Salle is an American painter who helped define postmodern sensibility by combining figuration with a varied pictorial language of multi-imagery...
, Richard Prince
Richard Prince
Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer. Prince began appropriating photographs in 1975...
and Peter Halley
Peter Halley
-Early Life and Career:Halley first came to prominence as a result of the geometric paintings rendered in intense day-glo colours that he produced in the early 1980s. His practice as an artist is usually associated with minimalism, neo-geo, and neo-conceptualism...
for example. His art world obsession continued and he added art critics, art dealers, art collectors and art curators to his archive. Greenfield-Sanders' first one-man exhibition was in 1981 at The Marcuse Pfeiffer Gallery. Titled, "New York Artists of the Fifties in the Eighties", the show consisted of 40 portraits of the leading figures of the Fifties who were still alive. The exhibition was reviewed in the New York Times by Hilton Kramer
Hilton Kramer
Hilton Kramer is a U.S. art critic and cultural commentator.Kramer was educated at Syracuse University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Indiana University and the New School for Social Research. He worked as the editor of Arts Magazine, art critic for The Nation, and from 1965 to 1982,...
, the chief art critic for the newspaper. Kramer said, "Mr. Greenfield-Sanders has a wonderful eye for faces and a subtle understanding of how their characteristic attributes may best be translated into the language of the photographic print. Even if we did not know who his subjects are, this would be a very affecting exhibition. But since the subjects are who they are, this show is also something of a historic event-and a moving one, too, for anyone who has lived through the period that it recalls". This significant review in the Times gave the photographer an important career boost. Years later, in 1999, Greenfield-Sanders exhibited all the art world subjects who had sat for his camera over a 20 year period. There were 700 images in this show at The Mary Boone Gallery in New York. Full editions of all 700 images are now in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston , located in Houston, is one of the largest museums in the United States. The permanent collection of the museum spans more than 6,000 years of history with more than 62,000 works from six continents....
.
XXX
Greenfield-Sanders got the idea for the XXX project after watching the film Boogie NightsBoogie Nights
Boogie Nights is a 1997 drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Set in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, the script focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, and chronicles his rise and fall from the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s...
, which dramatized the American porn industry in the 1970s. "In general, I found porn stars much more comfortable nude than clothed. They're energized, and more in control. My goal however was to humanize them, to show them as people, not objects". XXX included pictures of porn stars both clothed and nude in the same pose, a conceit inspired by the Spanish artist Goya. The thirty stars in the project were Sunrise Adams
Sunrise Adams
Sunrise Adams is a former American pornographic actress.-Early life:Adams was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in rural East Texas. "I grew up in Pickton, Texas, population 90, with no phone, one TV channel and no one to play with for miles." At age 16, Adams enrolled at a nearby community...
, Briana Banks
Briana Banks
Briana Banks is a German-American pornographic actress and model.-Early life:Briana Bany was born in Munich, Bavaria to a German father and an Italian-American mother. They moved to Britain when she was four years old, and to the Los Angeles, California, United States suburb of Simi Valley when...
, Belladonna, Seymour Butts, Christy Canyon
Christy Canyon
- External links :...
, Chloe, Nina Hartley
Nina Hartley
Nina Hartley is an American pornographic actress, pornographic film director, sex educator, feminist, and author.-Early life:...
, Jason Hawke
Jason Hawke
-Career:Hawke's first film was Lords of Jet Set Manor. He has performed in about 70 films.In 2004, the American portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders included Hawke as one of his thirty subjects in his art book, XXX: 30 Porn Star Photographs. Hawke was pictured with his former partner...
, Chad Hunt
Chad Hunt
Chad Hunt is a former gay porn star who performs in pornographic movies. He has also appeared on the cover of Badpuppy, Jock, Honcho, All Man and Unzipped magazines....
, Heather Hunter
Heather Hunter
Heather Keisha Hunter is a former pornographic actress, who is now a rap artist, painter, and author.-Film and television:...
, Jenna Jameson
Jenna Jameson
Jenna Jameson is an American entrepreneur and former pornographic actress, who has been called the world's most famous adult-entertainment performer and "The Queen of Porn."...
(who is on the front cover of the book), Jesse Jane
Jesse Jane
Jesse Jane is an American pornographic actress and model.-Early life:Jane was a military brat who grew up on various military bases in the Midwestern United States. She did extensive dance training and was a varsity cheerleader at her high school in Rose Hill, Kansas...
, Janine Lindemulder
Janine Lindemulder
Janine Marie Lindemulder , also known as Janine Marie James, is an American exotic dancer and adult film actress, best known for her work in American pornographic films during the mid-1990s and a 2004–2005 comeback...
, Ron Jeremy
Ron Jeremy
Ronald Jeremy Hyatt , usually called Ron Jeremy, is an American pornographic actor. Nicknamed "The Hedgehog", he was ranked by AVN at number one in their "The 50 Top Porn Stars of All Time" list...
, Jeremy Jordan
Jeremy Jordan (porn star)
Jeremy Jordan is a Canadian former gay pornographic actor who performed in pornographic movies for a number of major gay porn studios....
, Kira Kener
Kira Kener
Kira Nicole Kener is a retired American pornographic actress. She is Eurasian, as her father is of Norwegian ancestry and her mother is of Vietnamese ancestry...
, Reina Leone
Reina Leone
Reina Leone is an American pornographic film actress. She was born as Kelly Francisco.-San Francisco "Porno-Cops" scandal:...
, Michael Lucas, Gina Lynn
Gina Lynn
Gina Lynn is a Puerto Rican pornographic actress.- Biography :Lynn was born to Puerto Rican and Italian parents in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and grew up in Jackson Township, New Jersey; she currently resides and operates Gina Lynn Productions in Reading, Pennsylvania...
, Ginger Lynn
Ginger Lynn
Ginger Lynn is an American pornographic actress, prominent in 1980s videos. She also had occasional roles in low-budget B-movies. AVN has ranked her at #7 in a list of the 50 greatest porn stars of all time...
, Sean Michaels
Sean Michaels
Sean Michaels is a pornographic actor and director. He moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in order to begin his career in the porn industry, in which he has worked since 1985...
, Peter North, Tera Patrick
Tera Patrick
Linda Ann Hopkins, better known as Tera Patrick is a former American pornographic actress.-Early life:Tera Patrick was born Linda Ann Hopkins in Great Falls, Montana. While at Boise State, Patrick earned an AAS degree in nursing and a BS in Biology.-Career:Patrick moved to New York City and her...
, Mari Possa
Mari Possa
Mari Possa is a pornographic actress and reality TV personality.Her family moved from El Salvador to the United States when she was nine...
, Lukas Ridgeston
Lukas Ridgeston
Lukas Ridgeston is a Slovak actor in gay erotic movies and model in Bel Ami gay erotic magazines and books. He was born in Bratislava, then part of the former Czechoslovakia, now capital of Slovakia...
, Tawny Roberts
Tawny Roberts
Tawny Roberts is an American pornographic actress.-Awards:*2003 AVN Award nominee – Best New Starlet*2005 AVN Award nominee – Best Actress, Video – Unlovable...
, Savanna Samson
Savanna Samson
Natalie Oliveros, better known by the stage name Savanna Samson, is an American pornographic actress. The winner of several AVN Awards, she has spent most of her career as a contract performer with major producer Vivid Entertainment, and is known for her roles in acclaimed adult films such as The...
, Aiden Shaw
Aiden Shaw
Aiden Shaw is a writer and also a pornographic actor, who appears in gay American pornographic movies....
, Lexington Steele
Lexington Steele
Clifton Todd Britt , better known as Lexington Steele, is an American award-winning pornographic actor, director and owner of Mercenary Motion Pictures and Black Viking Pictures Inc. He is the first actor to have won the AVN Male Performer of the Year Award three times.- Education, career prior to...
, and May Ling Su. The book also featured essays from Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar , outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality...
, Salman Rushdie, John Malkovich
John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor, producer, director and fashion designer with his label Technobohemian. Over the last 25 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award...
, Francine du Plessix Gray
Francine du Plessix Gray
-Biography:She was born September 25, 1930 in Warsaw, Poland where her father, Vicomte Bertrand Jochaud du Plessix, was a French diplomat - the commercial attaché. She spent her early years in Paris, where a milieu of mixed cultures and a multilingual family influenced her...
, Karen Finley
Karen Finley
Karen Finley is an American performance artist, whose theatrical pieces and recordings have often been labelled "obscene" due to their graphic depictions of sexuality, abuse, and disenfranchisement...
, Nancy Friday
Nancy Friday
Nancy Colbert Friday is an author who has written on the topics of female sexuality and liberation.'Nancy Friday's successful fantasy revelations ' have seen her placed among 'the feminist erotic pioneers'...
, Nina Hartley
Nina Hartley
Nina Hartley is an American pornographic actress, pornographic film director, sex educator, feminist, and author.-Early life:...
, A.M. Homes, Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson may refer to:* Richard Johnson , romance writer* Richard Johnson , English actor* Richard Johnson , Australian architect...
, Wayne Koestenbaum
Wayne Koestenbaum
Wayne Koestenbaum is an American poet and cultural critic. He received a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University...
, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is an American journalist whose works focus on the marginalized members of society: adolescents living in poverty, prostitutes, women in prison, etc. She is best known for her 2003 non-fiction book Random Family...
, JT Leroy
JT LeRoy
Jeremiah "Terminator" LeRoy was a pseudonym created by American writer Laura Albert. The name was used from 1996 on for publication in magazines such as Nerve and Shout NY. After his first novel Sarah was published, "LeRoy" started making public appearances...
, Lou Reed
Lou Reed
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
, Whitley Strieber
Whitley Strieber
Louis Whitley Strieber is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, a non-fiction account of his perceived experiences with non-human entities. Strieber also co-authored The Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell, which inspired the film about...
, John Waters
John Waters (filmmaker)
John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films...
and Faye Wattleton
Faye Wattleton
Faye Wattleton is the first African-American and youngest President ever elected to Planned Parenthood . Currently, she serves as the President of the Center for the Advancement of Women, and also serves on the board of trustees at Columbia University...
.
Greenfield-Sanders produced and directed Thinking XXX
Thinking XXX
Thinking XXX is a 2004 television documentary about the process photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders went through to create his book XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits...
, a film for HBO
Home Box Office
HBO, short for Home Box Office, is an American premium cable television network, owned by Time Warner. , HBO's programming reaches 28.2 million subscribers in the United States, making it the second largest premium network in America . In addition to its U.S...
which chronicled the making of the book. It was released on DVD in the summer of 2006. Thinking XXX was edited by Lukas Hauser. It won three awards at the national book award conference in 2007.
Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq
In late 2006, Greenfield-Sanders photographed 13 severely injured soldiers and marines for the HBO documentary Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq. The images were initially used to promote the airing of the film but have subsequently become widely viewed and discussed. In the September 27, 2007 issue of the New York Time, Peter Applebome wrote, "Mr. Greenfield-Sanders' photographs have quickly become part of the visual landscape of the war..." Nicolaus Mills, an American Studies professor at Sarah Lawrence College wrote in Dissent Magazine Online, "...when it comes to arguing that the time has come to bring the Iraq War to a close, nobody has made the case in a way more likely to convince the undecided than Greenfield-Sanders. His visual politics forecloses debate."The Black List Project
In the summer of 2008, Greenfield-Sanders, Elvis Mitchell and Freemind Ventures launched The Black List Project, starting with an exhibition at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston of Greenfield-Sanders' 25 large-scale portraits of leading African Americans. The images include Bill T. JonesBill T. Jones
Bill T. Jones is an American artistic director, choreographer and dancer.-Early life:Jones was born in Bunnell, Florida and his family moved North as part of the Great Migration in the first half of the twentieth century. They settled in Wayland, New York, where Jones attended Wayland High School...
, Chris Rock
Chris Rock
Christopher Julius "Chris" Rock III is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was voted in the US as the 5th greatest stand-up comedian of all time by Comedy Central...
, Colin Powell
Colin Powell
Colin Luther Powell is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African American to serve in that position. During his military...
, Dawn Staley
Dawn Staley
Dawn Michelle Staley is an American basketball player and coach. Staley is a three-time Olympian and was elected to carry the United States flag at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was named the University of South Carolina women's head basketball coach on May 7, 2008...
, Faye Wattleton
Faye Wattleton
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, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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, Keenen Ivory Wayans
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Keenen Ivory Wayans is an American actor, comedian, director and writer known as the host and creator of the FOX sketch comedy series In Living Color, which also starred Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx, brothers Damon Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans, sister Kim Wayans, David Alan Grier, Tommy...
, Lorna Simpson
Lorna Simpson
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, Louis Gossett, Jr.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Louis Cameron Gossett, Jr. is an American actor best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman and Fiddler in the 1970s television miniseries Roots...
, Mahlon Duckett, Marc Morial
Marc Morial
Marc Haydel Morial is an American political and civic leader and the current president of the National Urban League. Morial served as mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana from 1994 to 2002. He is married to Michelle Miller, who has won awards as a CBS News Correspondent.- Early life and educations...
, Rev. Al Sharpton, Richard D. Parsons, Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons
-External links:** * * * * * * from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum* *...
, Sean Combs
Sean Combs
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, Serena Williams
Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her world no. 1 in singles on five separate occasions. She became the world no. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002 and regained this ranking for the fifth time on...
, Slash
Slash (musician)
Saul Hudson , known by his stage name Slash, is a British-American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During his later years with Guns N'...
, Steve Stoute
Steve Stoute
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, Susan Rice, Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks
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, Thelma Golden, Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved...
, Vernon Jordan, William Rice, and Zane
Zane
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and will travel to other museums nationwide including Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum
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in fall 2008. On August 25, 2008, the film The Black List: Volume 1
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aired on HBO and on September 16, 2008, Simon and Schuster's Atria published The Black List, with an introduction by Elvis Mitchell, as well as all of Greenfield-Sanders' portraits from the project. A slideshow of the images can be seen on Greenfield-Sanders' website.
All 50 images from The Black List series were exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery in 2011.
After the success of Volume 1, HBO commissioned The Black List: Volume 2, which included Angela Davis
Angela Davis
Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. Davis was most politically active during the late 1960s through the 1970s and was associated with the Communist Party USA, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party...
, Bishop Barbara Harris, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Charley Pride
Charley Pride
Charley Frank Pride is an American country music singer. His smooth baritone voice was featured on thirty-nine number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His greatest success came in the early- to mid-1970s, when he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis...
, Dr. Valerie Montgomery-Rice, Governor Deval Patrick
Deval Patrick
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, Kara Walker
Kara Walker
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, Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne
Laurence John Fishburne III is an American film and stage actor, playwright, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy, as Cowboy Curtis on the 1980's television show Pee-wee's Playhouse, and as singer-musician Ike Turner...
, Majora Carter
Majora Carter
Majora Carter is an economic consultant, public radio host, and environmental justice advocate from the South Bronx area of New York City. Carter founded the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainable South Bronx before entering the private sector.-Early life:Carter...
, Maya Rudolph
Maya Rudolph
Maya Khabira Rudolph is an American actress, comedienne and singer known for her comedic roles as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2000 to 2007, and for appearing in films such as Away We Go, Bridesmaids, Grown Ups, A Prairie Home Companion and MacGruber...
, Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles
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, Patrick Robinson
Patrick Robinson (actor)
Patrick Robinson is an English actor, who played the character of charge nurse Martin "Ash" Ashford in the long-running medical drama series Casualty on BBC One from 1990 to 1996...
, Rza
RZA
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, better known by his stage name RZA , is an American Grammy-winning music producer, multi-instrumentalist, author, emcee, and occasional actor, director, and screenwriter. A prominent figure in Hip Hop, RZA is the de facto leader of the Wu-Tang Clan. He has produced almost...
, Suzanne De Passe
Suzanne de Passe
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, and Tyler Perry
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. In February 2010, The Black List: Volume 3 aired on HBO. Included in the third edition were Whoopi Goldberg
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, Michael Lomax
Michael Lomax
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, Hill Harper
Hill Harper
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, Beverly Johnson
Beverly Johnson
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, Debra Lee, Lee Daniels
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, LaTanya Richardson
Latanya Richardson
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, and John Legend
John Legend
John Roger Stephens , better known by his stage name John Legend, is an American singer, musician, and actor. He is the recipient of nine Grammy Awards, and in 2007, he received the special Starlight award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.Prior to the release of his debut album, Stephens' career...
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The Latino List Project
Greenfield-Sanders most recent project extends the brand of The Black List Project by examining Latinos in the U.S. His new film, The Latino List aired on HBO on September 29th, 2012 and the exhibition of his portraits was presented by The Brooklyn Museum. The subjects of The Latino List are Henry CisnerosHenry Cisneros
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, Sandra Cisneros
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, Cesar Conde
Cesar Conde
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, Ralph de la Vega
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, Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan
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, Emilio Estefan
Emilio Estefan
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, Giselle Fernandez
Giselle Fernández
-External links:...
, America Ferrera
America Ferrera
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, Nely Galan
Nely Galán
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, Jose Hernandez
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, Maria Hinojosa
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, Consuelo Kickbusch, John Leguizamo
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, Eva Longoria
Eva Longoria
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, Senator Bob Menendez, Janet Murguia
Janet Murguía
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, Pitbull
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, Chi Chi Rodriguez, Anthony D. Romero, Eddie Sotelo, Sonia Sotomayor
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, Julie Stav, Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington
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, Dr. Marta Morena Vega, Raul Yzaguirre
Raul Yzaguirre
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Filmography
- The LGBTQQA List, Perfect Day Films, Inc. 2013
- The Women's List, Freemind Ventures and Perfect Day Films, Inc. 2012
- About FaceAbout FaceAbout Face may refer to:* About-face, a drill command in which a unit or soldier makes a 180-degree turn- Film :* About Face , a 1952 film starring Gordon MacRae and Eddie Bracken* About Face , a Canadian film starring Hugh Dillon...
, Perfect Day Films, Inc. 2012 - The Latino List: Volume 1, Freemind Beauty and Perfect Day Films, Inc. 2011
- The Black List: Volume 3, Freemind Ventures and Perfect Day Films, Inc. 2010
- The Black List: Volume 2, Freemind Ventures and Perfect Day Films, Inc. 2009
- The Black List: Volume 1The Black List: Volume 1The Black List is a series of films created as part of The Black List Project, a film, book and museum tour of photographs conceived by photographer/filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, with Elvis Mitchell, public radio host and former New York Times film critic.-Volume 1:The Black List: Volume 1...
, Freemind Ventures and Perfect Day Films, Inc. 2008 - Thinking XXXThinking XXXThinking XXX is a 2004 television documentary about the process photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders went through to create his book XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits...
HBO, 2005 - Karen FinleyKaren FinleyKaren Finley is an American performance artist, whose theatrical pieces and recordings have often been labelled "obscene" due to their graphic depictions of sexuality, abuse, and disenfranchisement...
, Perfect Day Films, Inc. 2004 - Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart, American Masters Series, 1998, Grammy AwardGrammy AwardA Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
1999, Premiered at Sundance and Berlin
External links
- Official Site
- Stockland Martel photo agency
- IMDB
- Interview on 60 Minutes60 Minutes60 Minutes is an American television news magazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation....
- Red Cross Pro-bono work
- The Treatment, radio interview with Elvis MitchellElvis MitchellElvis Mitchell is an American film critic, host of the public radio show The Treatment, and visiting lecturer at Harvard University. He has served as a film critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the LA Weekly, The Detroit Free Press, and The New York Times...