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...

Lou Reed, James Gandolfini and Laurie Anderson at Tribeca Protest. Photo by Scott Gries

"Enough is enough", said Tribeca resident Kirsten Dunst. After all, the neighborhood already has over 400 UPS and FedEx trucks and a garbage garage. Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, James Gandolfini,...

Portrait (c) Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. All Rights Reserved.

I first heard Eartha Kitt sing "Monotonous" on the cast album of "New Faces of 1952." Years later, on August 10th, 2005 she visited my studio for a portrait. We had tea in the kitchen and...

A few days ago, Odetta died, age 77. I photographed her on February 6, 2003 in a makeshift studio in the lobby of Radio City Music Hall.

Portrait (c) Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Just in case you want to tear yourself away from the DNC or tennis... tonight at 9PM on HBO is my new film, a collaboration with journalist Elvis Mitchell.
THE BLACK LIST, Volume One.

I first met YSL in 1977 through Andy Warhol. This portrait was taken in 1999 at the urging of Fern Mallis... RIP YSL.

(c) Timothy Greenfield-Sanders... All Rights Reserved.

Speak Up, Artists and Writers against the WAR
St. Ann's Warehouse, 3/18/2008
Artists Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Antony, David Byrne, Norah Jones, Bill T. Jones, Scissor Sisters, Blonde Redhead, and Damien Rice among others sang. Speakers included Richard Belzer, Naomi Kline....

(c)Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, All Rights Reserved
May 9, 2003.

Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal and Kurt Vonnegut visited the studio to sit for a group portrait for Vanity Fair Magazine. Later each writer posed alone...

Their anger over the American invasion...

Portrait of Marine Staff Stg. John Jones by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Last fall, HBO's Sheila Nevins invited me to photograph injured soldiers and marines for a documentary based on "24 hours in the life of Walter Reed hospital". A few weeks before our scheduled...

Tonight, Lou Reed's "Berlin" ends its magnificent 4 night run at Brooklyn's St Ann's Warehouse. ( A few shows are scheduled for Australia in January.)

Photo (c) Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
I especially like David Fricke's insightful Rolling Stone Online review...so if politics...

Robert Rosenblum, the legendary art historian, died yesterday. I first photographed Robert in 1982 for my Art Critics series. His influence on the "art world" was immeasurable.

Robert's last curation, "Best In Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today", is currently on view at the...

Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders...All rights reserved.

Singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright re-created, song for song, (26 in all) Judy Garland's legendary April 1961 Carnegie Hall concert tonight at Carnegie Hall. Special guests onstage included Wainwright's mother Kate McGarrigle, his sister Martha Wainwright and Garland's...

Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Rolling Stone Magazine party for its 1000th issue.
Backstage with Solomon Burke and Jann Wenner
May 4, 2006

Highlight of the night...Lou Reed played "Walk on the Wild Side" with the Strokes.