Studio Visit: Jerry Schatzberg

We dropped by the New York City offices of the photographer and filmmaker (Puzzle of a Downfall Child, The Panic in Needle Park) for a tour of his archives, complete with souvenirs from Cannes and cameos by Bob Dylan.

Read the interview with Jerry Schatzberg here.

“It’s not come in, sit down and bang, bang, bang, you’re finished. I mean, when I photographed Dylan, when I photograph anybody, I would talk to them first to put them at ease and put myself at ease and watch them to see how they move, what I could expect from them.”

“Panic was my first commercial film. Or at least the first film I didn’t initiate. I had met Dominick Dunne out in California, and I was sent the script by the Dunnes [Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne]. I read the script and turned the film down because the lab had scratched the last six minutes of Puzzle. I really had it in my mind to do only one film. I wasn’t going into the film business.”