Taylor Mead, Warhol star, poet and actor, died on May 8th. My first portrait of Taylor was in December, 1979. We'd talk every so often for the next 34 years. When our mutual friend, Warhol star Tally Brown died, Taylor attended the funeral with Holly Woodlawn and Penny Arcade. In...

On March 27th, 1990, Mayor Ed Koch posed for a Seven Days magazine cover shoot. As he got out of his car, two East Village locals were going through the garbage in front of my studio. Their hands dripped of coke syrup from the cans they were collecting for nickels....

Lou Reed and Metallica celebrated their collaboration album "Lulu" the other night in New York. I shot this in the back room of Steven Kasher Gallery during a listening party held before the dinner at Lion, hosted by Dom Perignon. Those are Lou self-portraits on the back wall.
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I've known Bowie Zunino, the Director of the Wassaic Project, since she was an infant and I'm very impressed with the terrific arts festival that she, Jeff Barnett-Winsby and Eve Biddle have created in Wassaic, New York. On Friday, August 5th, The Wassaic Project opens its fourth year with over...

Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon organized a benefit for Japan Society's earthquake relief fund. Lou Reed, Antony Hegarty and Patti Smith joined in. I shot this backstage in a private moment, but am posting it with the hope that others will contribute to Japan Society's efforts.
http://www.japansociety.org/earthquake
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Salman Rushdie launched his new book, Luka and the Fire of Life, in front of a packed house of friends and fans at the Bowery Hotel. The incomparable Laura Linney (who flawlessly stars in Showtimes's The Big C), joined Rushdie to read passages from the book. Then, Angela McCluskey and...

Congressman John Hall's fundraiser at Cat Rock in Garrison, New York was an occasion for him to vent on the disgraceful conduct of large insurance companies, particularly Prudential. Prudential is cheating the families of deceased Veterans by keeping 3/4 of the interest earnings on veterans' death benefits from the...

Last year, Liliana Greenfield-Sanders (my multi-talented daughter) produced and directed "Adelaide", an award winning short. Actually, "Adelaide" won ten awards, including both the Grand Jury Prize & Audience Award at Gen Art, Best Short film at Woodstock and New Orleans, Audience Awards & Special Jury Prizes at Austin, Indie Memphis,...

I've been shooting portraits of musician/artist Antony Hegarty for many years now. (Lou Reed turned me and many many others on to Antony's work.)

On Letterman the other night, Antony was extraordinary...and I particularly liked his verse about the environment.

(c) Timothy Greenfield-Sanders,...

Sebastian Blanck, indie musician and painter, has created Alibi Coast, a masterful new record (on iTunes, vinyl LP and CD). According to Hillary Kaylor of RCRDLBL it's "spun gold, richly layered, aching, earnest". Alibi Coast features super-cool Caroline Polachek of Chairlift, Becky Stark of...

Photo (c)Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, all rights reserved.

On February 22nd, 1995, Dennis Hopper sat for this portrait. Artist/filmmaker David Salle brought him by the studio. Hopper had just starred in Salle's film, "Search and Destroy." What I remember most about the afternoon was Dennis'...

Director Anne Bass's Dancing Across Borders is a wonderful and moving documentary about the young Cambodian dancer Sokvannaara Sar. Ten years ago Bass discovered Sar performing with a small troupe in Angkor Wat and quickly recognized his remarkable talent. She arranged for him to come to New York and audition...

To retouch or not to retouch, seems to be the question these days. I chose the latter, for my current exhibition of large-format portraits titled "Supermodels of the 70's and 80's" at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York. The images, taken on my vintage Deardorff 8x10 view...

To benefit Golden Bridge for Tibet, Michael Imperioli held a preview screening last week of his new film "The Hungry Ghosts." On behalf of 'Golden Bridge', Tibetan Lama Namkha Rinpoche spoke to an audience that included "Sopranos" family members Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Robert Iler, and Lorraine Bracco among others.

Michael Imperioli...

"It pains me to inform you of the passing of the talented magnificent Jim Carroll. His books, poetry and songs set an impossibly high standard for others to follow. He was the real deal. Period. A sweetheart." -- Lou Reed

Jim Carroll, the legendary poet, musician and hipster,...

Legendary dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham died today. I photographed Merce Cunningham for the first time, on July 3, 1989, just over 20 years ago. My friend Bill Katz had asked me to shoot Merce, John Cage and Jasper Johns, together, for the catalogue of Anthony d'Offay's upcoming exhibition of "Dancers on...

Farrah Fawcett sat for a portrait in Los Angeles, on November 11, 1989. The shoot was for Mirabella Magazine and my great friend Grace Mirabella visited the set. I remember shooting 8x10 Polaroids of Farrah, beautiful one-of-a kind images that developed in front of our eyes.

American treasure Lou Reed did a flawless set last night at The Whitney Museum. He told me, "It''s always fun to play a museum. When I was with Andy Warhol, we played hundreds of them".
Lou's set included, "Dirty Boulevard", "Romeo Had Juliet", "Guilty", "Who Am I", "Ecstasy" and...

This is the second installment of an original portrait series I'm doing for the Huffington Post. The first was Sandra Bernhard. For more information about my work, visit www.greenfield-sanders.com.

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In Senegal and much of Africa, according to Rolling Stone, Youssou N'Dour is "perhaps the most famous...

This is the debut of my new portrait series on the Huffington Post. Here you will find original portraits of iconic personalities, every few weeks, time permitting. For more about my work, please visit www.greenfield-sanders.com

Sandra Bernhard first sat for me in July of 1989, for a Barney's celebrity...