Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Birth name	Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Born	1952 (age 61–62) United States
Nationality	American
Field	Photography

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (born 1952) is an American documentary filmmaker and portrait photographer, son of Miami musician and teacher Dr. Ruth W. Greenfield.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]} The majority of his work is shot in large format.^[17]

He has photographed Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Sandra Day O'Connor, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, and Hillary Clinton.^[18][19] Seven hundred of his art world portraits are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

His feature documentary film, Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart, about the musician Lou Reed, won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video.^[20] The film premiered in the U.S. at the Sundance Film Festival and in Europe at the Berlin Film Festival.^[21] It aired on the American Masters series on PBS.^[20] Greenfield-Sanders also 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.^[22] During the photo shoots for the exhibition he directed an HBO documentary, also called Thinking XXX, about the actresses.^[23]

Starting in 2008, Greenfield-Sanders directed and produced The Black List: Volumes 1, 2 and 3. "Volume 1" premiered at The Sundance Film Festival. These documentary films aired on HBO in 2008, 2009 and 2010.^[24] Portraits taken by Greenfield-Sanders for the project were first exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2008 and then at the Brooklyn Museum.^[25] The work continued to tour and was shown at the Hartford Atheneum and the Paley Center in New York and Los Angeles.^[26] From October 27, 2011 - April 22, 2012, all fifty images from the series were shown at The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.^[24]

In 2010 "The Latino List: Volume 1" aired on HBO and Greenfield-Sanders' portraits of twenty-five leading Latinos were exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum. In 2012, he completed a new film, About Face, an examination of beauty through the eyes and lives of supermodels from the 1950s through the 1980s. This documentary premiered at The Sundance Film Festival and aired on HBO on July 30, 2012.^[27]

Greenfield-Sanders has been on the masthead as a contributing photographer to Vanity Fair. He received a B.A. in Art History from Columbia University and a M.F.A. in film from the American Film Institute.^[28]

References

External links

• Official website
• Timothy Greenfield-Sanders at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview on 60 Minutes
• Red Cross Pro-bono work
• The Treatment, radio interview with Elvis Mitchell
• Fresh Air radio interview with Terry Gross