Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Greenfield-Sanders in 2012
Born (1952-02-16) February 16, 1952
Miami, Florida, U.S.
Nationality American
Education Columbia University
American Film Institute
Known for Photography,
Documentary Films
Website Greenfield-Sanders.com

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (born 1952) is an American documentary filmmaker and portrait photographer based in New York City. The majority of his work is shot in large format.[1]

Early life

Greenfield-Sanders was born on February 16, 1952, in Miami Beach, Florida, to Miami-based musician and teacher Ruth W. Greenfield (née Wolkowsky) and lawyer, Arnold Merwin Greenfield.[2][3][4] He graduated from Ransom Everglades School and received a B.A. in Art History from Columbia University and a M.F.A. in film from the American Film Institute (A.F.I).[5]

Career

Photography

Greenfield-Sanders has photographed five U.S. Presidents, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Sonia Sotomayor, Sandra Day O'Connor, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton, among many others.[6][7] Seven hundred of his art world portraits are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Greenfield-Sanders is on the masthead, as a contributing photographer, of Vanity Fair. His work has been exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery, The Newseum, Brooklyn Museum, High Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and most recently at The Annenberg Space for Photography.

Film

His documentary film, Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart, about the musician Lou Reed, won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video.[8] The film premiered in the U.S. at the Sundance Film Festival and in Europe at the Berlin Film Festival.[9] It aired on the American Masters series on PBS.[8]

Greenfield-Sanders exhibited "Thinking XXX", a series of clothed and nude portraits of porn stars at the Mary Boone Gallery from October 30 to December 18, 2004.[10] During the photo shoots for the exhibition he directed an HBO documentary, also called Thinking XXX, about the adult stars.[11] His son in-law Sebastian Blanck worked with him on Thinking XXX, as a composer.[12][13]

Starting in 2008, Greenfield-Sanders directed and produced The Black List: Volumes 1, 2 and 3. "Volume 1" premiered at The Sundance Film Festival.[14] Portraits taken by Greenfield-Sanders for the project were first exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2008, then at Brooklyn Museum,[15] the Hartford Atheneum, and the Paley Center in New York City and Los Angeles.[16] From October 27, 2011 - April 22, 2012, all fifty images from the series were shown at The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.[14] The Black List won an NAACP Image Award for Best Documentary.

In 2010 and 2011, Greenfield-Sanders directed and produced The Latino List: Volumes 1 & 2. Both films aired on HBO. His portraits from the series were exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the High Museum in Atlanta. In 2012, he completed another film, About Face: Supermodels Then and Now, an examination of beauty through the eyes and lives of supermodels from the 1950s to the 1980s. This documentary premiered at The Sundance Film Festival and aired on HBO on July 30, 2012.[17] He also directed and produced, "The Out List", which aired on HBO on October 27, 2013, just as the United States Supreme Court ruled on marriage equality.

On September 23, 2014, Greenfield-Sanders aired, on PBS' American Masters series, "The Boomer List", which starred well-known persons representing each of the baby boomer years of 1946–1964. His portraits of the 19 subjects were exhibited at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. On September 25, 2015, his film The Women's List aired on PBS' American Master series. His portraits of subjects from the documentary along with 35 other images of women, from his archive, were exhibited through December 31, 2015 at the Hearst Tower Alexey Brodovitch Gallery.

In 2016, Greenfield-Sanders directed and produced, The Trans List. Trans journalist and author, Janet Mock, conducted the interviews. The film received grants from The Ford Foundation, The Arcus Foundation and The Annenberg Foundation. Among the eleven subjects were Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox. It aired December 5, 2016 on HBO. In addition to the documentary, Greenfield-Sanders photographed 29 other trans subjects to include in his "list" survey exhibition at the Annenberg Space for Photography. This exhibition was the first time that all 151 portraits from the Black, Latino, Out, Women's and Trans 'list' projects were presented together. On December 4, 2016, Greenfield-Sanders was profiled on CBS Sunday Morning by Serena Altschul.

Awards

Greenfield-Sanders won a Grammy Award for his film, Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart and an NAACP Image Award for the documentary, The Black List: Volume 1. On October 29, 2015, he received the Pratt Institute Legend Award at a ceremony in New York. It was presented by filmmaker, Darren Aronofsky.[18] His 2016 documentary, The Trans List was nominated for a GLAAD media award for best documentary. On May 19, 2017, Greenfield-Sanders received the Ransom Everglades Founder's Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to the Community.

Personal life

He is married to lawyer, Karin Greenfield-Sanders (née Sanders). They have two children, painter Isca Greenfield-Sanders and filmmaker, Liliana Greenfield-Sanders.[19]

References

  1. ↑ "Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery Presents "The Black List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders" - Newsdesk". si.edu. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "How two friends started Florida's first interracial arts school". Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  3. ↑ Ruth LaFerla "When Beauty Fades" The New York Times July 25, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Age Becomes Her: HBO's New Documentary, About Face: Supermodels Then and Now - Timothy Greenfield-Sanders". greenfield-sanders.com. Archived from the original on 25 March 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  5. ↑ Simonsandschuster.ca Archived 2012-07-07 at Archive.is
  6. ↑ "The Elegant Portraiture of Timothy Greenfield-Sanders - Shutterbug". shutterbug.com. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  7. ↑ "Politics - Timothy Greenfield-Sanders". greenfield-sanders.com. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  8. 1 2 "timothy-greenfield-sanders's Awards". stocklandmartel.com. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  9. ↑ Williamturnergallery.com Archived 2012-06-22 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ↑ "Mary Boone Gallery - Timothy Greenfield-Sanders". maryboonegallery.com. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  11. ↑ bob the moo (28 October 2004). "Thinking XXX (TV Movie 2004)". IMDb. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  12. ↑ "Thinking XXX". IMDB.
  13. ↑ "WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Sebastian Blanck". The New York Times. 2003-08-24. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  14. 1 2 Npg.si.edu
  15. ↑ "Brooklyn Museum: The Black List Project: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell". brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  16. ↑ "The Black List Project". The Paley Center for Media. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  17. ↑ Rooney, David. "About Face: Sundance Film Festival". The Hollywood Reporter.
  18. ↑ Greenfield-Sanders, Timothy. "Pratt Institute Announces Honorees for Legends 2015". Pratt.edu. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  19. ↑ "Mover & Shaker: Isca Greenfield-Sanders". Veronica Beard. Archived from the original on 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
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