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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (Timothy Greenfield) was born on 16 February, 1952 in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S., is an American filmmaker and photographer (born 1952). Discover Timothy Greenfield-Sanders's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
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His wife is Karin Sanders
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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Timothy Greenfield-Sanders worth at the age of 72 years old? Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s income source is mostly from being a successful filmmaker. He is from United States. We have estimated Timothy Greenfield-Sanders's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
Today, with that film discontinued, he shoots with a 1930s Deardorff studio camera on 8"x10" Kodak color negative.
He shoots only a handful of frames.
His work has been exhibited in the United States at The National Portrait Gallery, The Newseum, Brooklyn Museum, High Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The San Antonio Museum of Art, and The Annenberg Space for Photography.
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (born February 16, 1952) is an American documentary filmmaker and portrait photographer based in New York City.
The majority of his work is shot in large format.
Greenfield-Sanders was born on February 16, 1952, in Miami Beach, Florida, to musician and teacher Ruth W. Greenfield (née Wolkowsky) and lawyer Arnold Merrin Greenfield.
While Columbia in the 1970's had no undergraduate film program, Greenfield-Sanders managed to talk his way into classes at the graduate film school and received academic credit for them.
Through his friend underground actress and singer Tally Brown he befriended filmmaker Jack Smith and assisted Smith on projects.
His early interest in Alfred Hitchcock was deepened after taking Andrew Sarris's Hitchcock class at Columbia and after graduation he worked as the projectionist for Donald Spoto's Hitchcock class at The New School for Social Research.
Greenfield-Sanders has photographed well-known figures.
The USPS George H.W. Bush "Forever" stamp is based on Greenfield-Sanders' portrait of the former President.
700 of his art world portraits are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
He graduated from Ransom Everglades School and received a BA in art history from Columbia University in 1974 and a MFA in film in 1977 from the American Film Institute (A.F.I).
He began his career in 1978 using a vintage 1905 Fulmer & Schwing view camera with 11"x14" Ektapan black and white film.
He made contact prints from the large-format negatives.
He was on the masthead, as a contributing photographer, of Vanity Fair from 1990 to 2017.
He also contributed photos to Barron's and the SoHo Weekly News.
Greenfield-Sanders was initially interested in filmmaking, pursuing a degree at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, where he also took portraits for the school's archive of visiting directors, actors and film stars.
"Because of AFI, I got tips from celebrities as well as access to them," he says.
Alfred Hitchcock once remarked, "Young man, your lights are all wrong," while Bette Davis criticized him harshly for "shooting from below", according to a Photofocus.com article.
Admitting to Davis that he was eager to learn more about portraiture, she invited him to drive her around Hollywood for a week in exchange for her thoughts on photography.
Greenfield-Sanders credits Davis with alerting him to the work of George Hurrell and the art of large-format cameras.
Greenfield-Sanders makes large-format portraiture.
His first documentary film, Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart, about the musician Lou Reed, won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video.
The film premiered in the U.S. at the Sundance Film Festival and in Europe at the Berlin Film Festival.
It aired on the American Masters series on PBS.
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.
During the photo shoots for the exhibition, he directed an HBO documentary, also called Thinking XXX, about the adult stars.
On October 15, 2004, Greenfield-Sanders was profiled on 60 Minutes.
About the XXX project, art critic David Rimanelli in Artforum stated: "Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, the tremendously successful photographer of presidents, Supreme Court justices, movie and music stars, famous writers, and the full panoply of artists, dealers, and critics who constitute the art world, has turned his large-format 8 x 10 Deardorff camera on the parallel universe of pornographic stardom."
Starting in 2008, Greenfield-Sanders directed and produced The Black List, a series of three documentary films.
"Volume 1" premiered at The Sundance Film Festival.
All three films aired on HBO.
Portraits taken by Greenfield-Sanders for the project were first exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 2008, then at Brooklyn Museum, the Hartford Atheneum, and the Paley Center in New York City and Los Angeles.
In 2010 and 2011, Greenfield-Sanders directed and produced The Latino List: Volumes 1 & 2.
His portraits from the series were exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the High Museum in Atlanta.
From October 27, 2011, to April 22, 2012, all 50 images from the series were shown at The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The Black List won an NAACP Image Award for Best Documentary.
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.