Steve Schapiro traveled throughout America photographing and recording people and issues during the turbulent decade of the 1960s. For the very first time, American Edge brings together ninety of Schapiro's searing images-images fit to stand aside classics of documentary photography like Walker Evans's American Photographs (1938), Robert Frank's The Americans (1959), and Diane Arbus's posthumous MoMA retrospective (1972). American Edge offers a singular vision of the fractured fabric of contemporary American life. The photographer traveled with Bobby Kennedy during his presidential campaign, and with writer James Baldwin through the American South. Schapiro also covered the New York art scene-documenting Andy Warhol's Factory-as well as the hippie and protest movements sweeping the universities, which culminated in the riots of 1968. American Edge reveals the increasing disparity between the rich and poor, racial and class conflict, and the burgeoning American middle class and its materialist desires. Among the countless women and men portrayed are Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ike and Tina Turner, Simon and Garfunkel, Robert Rauschenberg, Janis Joplin, and Andy Warhol. American Edge represents a major rediscovery of one of the most talented documentary photographers of the late twentieth century. ...a visual panorama of life in these United States before style replaced substance... -Max Buda -- FLAUNT, October 2000 Schapiro s camera shows a far more complex portrait of the times. [He] chronicled our national soul in flux. -Chris Nashawaty -- Entertainment Weekly, October 6, 2000 This coffee-table work contains some of the most dramatic and jaw-dropping photos I have ever seen. -- USA Today, Monday, November 20, 2000 --Larry King Steve Schapiro is a widely acclaimed photographer whose work has been seen regularly in the major magazines of the world. In addition to his documentary photographs from the 1960s, he has worked on numerous and diverse commercial assignments, including stills for Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, and John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy. His Life covers of Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and Truman Capote are today considered to be classics in the portrait genre. Used Book in Good Condition