Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (born February 16, 1952) is an American

documentary filmmaker A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

and

portrait A portrait is a portrait painting, painting, portrait photography, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, Personality type ...

photographer A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types of photographe ...

based in New York City. The majority of his work is shot in

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Early life

Greenfield-Sanders was born on February 16, 1952, in

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, to musician and teacher Ruth W. Greenfield (''née'' Wolkowsky) and lawyer Arnold Merwin Greenfield. He graduated from

Ransom Everglades School Ransom Everglades School is an independent, non-profit, co-educational, college-preparatory day school serving grades six to twelve in Coconut Grove in Miami, Florida. It formed with the merger in 1974 of the Everglades School for Girls and the ...

and received a BA in art history from

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in 1974 and a MFA in film in 1977 from the American Film Institute (A.F.I).

Career

Photography

Greenfield-Sanders has photographed well-known figures (

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( ; ; March 15, 1933September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President ...

Madeleine Albright Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic ...

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Serena Williams Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American inactive professional tennis player. Considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for ...

Jimmy Carter James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he previously served as th ...

Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( ; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He was the only president never to have been elected ...

George H.W. Bush George Herbert Walker BushSince around 2000, he has been usually called George H. W. Bush, Bush Senior, Bush 41 or Bush the Elder to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd president from 2001 to 2009; p ...

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Michelle Obama Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and author who served as first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She was the first African-American woman to serve in this position. She is married t ...

and

Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States sen ...

) among many others. The USPS George H.W. Bush 'Forever' stamp is based on Greenfield-Sanders' portrait of the former President. 700 of his art world portraits (including

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationsh ...

Jasper Johns Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art. He is well known for his depictions of the American flag and other US-related top ...

Agnes Martin Agnes Bernice Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004), was an American abstract painter. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on inward-ness and silence". Although she is often considered or referred to as a minimalist, Mart ...

Cindy Sherman Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters. Her breakthrough work is often co ...

David Hammons David Hammons (born July 24, 1943) is an American artist, best known for his works in and around New York City and Los Angeles during the 1970s and 1980s. Early life David Hammons was born in 1943 in Springfield, Illinois, the youngest of ten ...

Joan Mitchell Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was an American artist who worked primarily in painting and printmaking, and also used pastel and made other works on paper. She was an active participant in the New York School of artis ...

Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning (; ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter El ...

Joop Sanders Joop Sanders (born October 6, 1921) is a Dutch-American painter, educator, and founding member of the American Abstract Expressionist group. He is the youngest member of the first generation of the New York School. Sanders' work is held in t ...

David Wojnarowicz David Michael Wojnarowicz ( (September 14, 1954 – July 22, 1992) was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village art scene. He incorp ...

Kiki Smith Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a West German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS and gender, whil ...

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Roy Lichtenstein Roy Fox Lichtenstein (; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. Hi ...

Richard Prince Richard Prince (born 1949) is an American painter and photographer. In the mid-1970s, Prince made drawings and painterly collages that he has since disowned. His image, ''Untitled (Cowboy)'', a rephotographing of a photograph by Sam Abell and ...

, and

Cai Guo-Qiang Cai Guo-Qiang (; born 8 December 1957) is a Chinese artist who currently lives and works in New York City and New Jersey. Biography Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. His father, Cai Ruiqin, was a calligrapher ...

) are in the collections of

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and

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Buil ...

. He was on the masthead, as a contributing photographer, of '' Vanity Fair'' from 1990 to 2017. Greenfield-Sanders was initially interested in filmmaking, pursuing a degree at the

American Film Institute The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States. AFI is supported by private funding and public membership fees. Leade ...

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. 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 George Edward Hurrell (June 1, 1904 – May 17, 1992) was a photographer who contributed to the image of glamour (presentation), glamour presented by Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s. Early life Born in the Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Walnut ...

and the art of large-format cameras."He typically shoots a few sheets of large format film..." https://www.thephoblographer.com/2017/06/28/photographer-timothy-greenfield-sanders-talks-portrait-process/ Greenfield-Sanders makes large-format portraiture. 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. Today, with that film discontinued, he shoots with a 1930's 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 The Newseum was an American museum dedicated to news and journalism that promoted free expression and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, while tracing the evolution of communication. The purpose of the museum, funded by the ...

Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...

High Museum of Art The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High) is the largest museum for visual art in the Southeastern United States. Located in Atlanta, Georgia (on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district), the High is 312,000 square feet (28, ...

, The

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, and

The Annenberg Space for Photography The Annenberg Space for Photography (2009 - 2020) was an exhibition space in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles' Westside. Founded in March 2009, it was dedicated to displaying photographic works, ranging from artistic to journalistic, ...

Film

His first documentary film, ''Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart,'' about the musician

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, won the 1999

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. The film premiered in the U.S. at the

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and in Europe at the

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. 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

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from October 30 to December 18, 2004. During the photo shoots for the exhibition he directed an HBO documentary, also called ''

Thinking XXX ''Thinking XXX'' is a 2004 documentary television film about the process photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders went through to create his book ''XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits''. Content The film shows Greenfield-Sanders as he shoots portraits o ...

'', about the adult stars. His son in-law Sebastian Blanck worked with him on Thinking XXX, as a composer. On October 15, 2004, Greenfield-Sanders was profiled on

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. 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. From October 27, 2011, to April 22, 2012, all fifty images from the series were shown at The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. ''The Black List'' won an

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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

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s from the 1950s to the 1980s. This documentary premiered at The Sundance Film Festival and aired on HBO on July 30, 2012. Subjects included

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, Lisa Taylor,

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, Esme Marshall and Nancy Donahue. 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

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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 Janet Mock (born March 10, 1983) is an American writer, television host, director, producer and transgender rights activist. Her debut book, the memoir '' Redefining Realness'', became a ''New York Times'' bestseller. She is a contributing edit ...

, conducted the interviews. The film received grants from

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, The Arcus Foundation and

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. Among the eleven subjects were Caitlyn Jenner and

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. 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

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. Greenfield-Sanders' latest film, '' Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am'', premiered on January 27, 2019, at the

. The film explores the extraordinary life and artistry of

Toni Morrison Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, ''The Bluest Eye'', was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed '' So ...

, the legendary Nobel laureate. Interviewees include Morrison,

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, and

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, among others. ''Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am'' won numerous film festival awards, the 2020 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary and was nominated for three Emmy Awards.

Publications

Books

* ''After Andy: Soho in the Eighties''. Schwartz City, Melbourne, 1996. Text by Paul Taylor, portraits by Greenfield-Sanders. * ''Art World''. Fotofolio, 1999. Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum, Robert Pincus-Witten, and Mark Strand. * ''Timothy Greenfield-Sanders''. Alberico Cetti Serbelloni, 2001. Introduction by Francesco Clemente, curated by Demetrio Paparoni. In English and Italian. * ''XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits''. Bulfinch, 2004. Introduction by Gore Vidal. * ''Face to Face, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Selected Portraits 1977-2005''. Skira, 2005. Edited by Demetrio Paparoni and Gianni Mercurio. * ''Look: Portraits Backstage at Olympus Fashion Week''. Powerhouse, 2006. * ''The Black List''. Atria, 2008. Introduction by Elvis Mitchell, portraits by Greenfield-Sanders. * ''The Black List 50''. National Portrait Gallery; LCP, 2011. Portraits by Greenfield-Sanders. * ''The Latino List''. LCP, 2011. Introduction by Maria Hinojosa, portraits by Greenfield-Sanders. * ''The Boomer List''. LCP, 2015. Portraits by Greenfield-Sanders. Original Book of the Year, Independent Publisher Book Award 2015, SNAP Excel Award 20. * ''The Out List''. LCP, 2014. Sam McConnell. Portraits by Greenfield-Sanders. * ''The Trans List''. Janet Mock, 2016. Portraits by Greenfield-Sanders, Annenberg Space for Photography.

Catalogues

* ''American Art of the 80's''. Electra. Curated by Gabriella Belli and

Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz (born February 19, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for '' New York'' magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for ''The Village Voice'', he received the Pu ...

, Trento, Palazzo dele Albere, 1991/92 Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. * ''Dancers On A Plane: John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Jasper Johns''. Portraits by Greenfield-Sanders, essays

Susan Sontag Susan Sontag (; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, philosopher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her ...

, Richard Francis, Mark Rosenthal, Anne Seymour,

David Sylvester Anthony David Bernard Sylvester (21 September 1924 – 19 June 2001) was a British art critic and curator. Although he received no formal education in the arts, during his long career he was influential in promoting modern artists, in particula ...

, and David Vaughan. Thames and Hudson, Anthony d'Offay Gallery London. * ''The Last Decade''. American Artists of the 80's curated by Collins & Milazzo, essays by Robert Pincus-Witten and Collins and Milazzo photographic portraits of the artists by Greenfield-Sanders. New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1990. * ''Movie Stars''. Skira; Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy. Essays: Darren Aronofsky & Rachel Weisz, Alec Baldwin Gianni Mercurio, Demetrio Paparoni,

Robert Rosenblum Robert Rosenblum (July 24, 1927 – December 6, 2006) was an American art historian and curator known for his influential and often irreverent scholarship on European and American art of the mid-eighteenth to 20th centuries. Biography Rosenblum wa ...

, introductions by Silvio Di Francia and Walter Veltroni. * ''Timothy Greenfield-Sanders''. Marimura Art Museum, Tokyo. Curated by Taro Chiezo, text by Robert Pincus-Witten, 1990. * ''Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Portraits''.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (widely referred to as The Modern) is an art museum of post-World War II art in Fort Worth, Texas with a collection of international modern and contemporary art. Founded in 1892, The Modern is located in the c ...

. Essay by

Robert Pincus-Witten Robert Pincus-Witten (April 5, 1935 – January 28, 2018) was an American art critic, curator and art historian. Biography Born in New York City, Pincus-Witten earned his undergraduate degree at The Cooper Union, in New York City in 1956. He wrote ...

, 1991. * ''Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Selected Portraits 1985-1995''. Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Koln, 1996. * ''Timothy Greenfield-Sanders''. Emilio Mazzoli Editore. Introduction by Achille Bonito Oliva. * ''Faces and Names''. Gianni Mercurio. Italian Exhibition catalogue. * ''The Ninth Street Show''. 1987. Lumiere, Toronto, Canada. Hand printed by Michael Torosian. Text by Robert Pincus-Witten. Edition of 150 copies. Published in 1987 in celebration of 35th anniversary of Leo Castelli Gallery.

Awards

* Grammy Award, 1999, "Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart". * NAACP Image Award, "The Black List: Volume 1", * Pratt Institute Legend Award, October 29, 2015, presented by filmmaker,

Darren Aronofsky Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His films are noted for their surrealistic, melodramatic, and sometimes disturbing elements, often in the form of psychological fiction. Aronof ...

. * ''

GLAAD Media Award The GLAAD Media Award is an accolade bestowed by GLAAD to recognize and honor various branches of the media for their outstanding representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect their live ...

'' 2016 Nominee Best Documentary. * Founder's Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to the Community, May 19, 2017, Ransom Everglades * NAACP Image Award, "Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am", * News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Nominee, Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary, "Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am"

Collections

Greenfield-Sanders' work is held in the following permanent collections: * The Museum of Modern Art, New York * The National Portrait Gallery, D.C. * The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York * The Whitney Museum of Art, New York * The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston * The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris * The Broad Foundation, Los Angeles * The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York * The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. * The Detroit Institute of Arts * Getty Museum of Art, Santa Monica, Ca * The International Center of Photography * Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy * The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston * The Philadelphia Museum of Art * The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

One-person exhibitions

* 1981 ''NY Artists of the 50's in the 80's'', Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York City, * 1981 ''NY Artists of the 50's in the 80's'' Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, * 1981 ''NY Artists of the 50's in the 80's'' Loew Gallery, Syracuse, New York, * 1982 ''NY Artists of the 50’s in the 80’s'' Brevard Art Center and Museum, Melbourne, Florida * 1982 ''NY Artists of the 50’s in the 80’s'' Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Miami, Florida, * 1982 ''Art Critics'', Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York City, * 1982 ''NY Artists of the 50's in the 80's'' Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas, *1982; * 1983 ''NY Artists of the 50's in the 80's'' Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, * 1984 ''NY Artists of the 50's in the 80's'' Drew University Gallery, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, 1984 * 1987 ''NY Artists of the 50's in the 80's — 9th Street Show'', Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, * 1987 ''New Irascibles Series'', Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, NYC, NY. * 1991 “Timothy Greenfield-Sanders” Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas. * 1996 “Timothy Greenfield-Sanders” Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Koln, Germany. * 1999 “Art World” Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY * 2000 “Art World” Emilio Mazzoli Gallery, Modena, Italy * 2004 “XXX” Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY * 2010 "Supermodels of the 70's and 80's", Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, * 2010 “The Black List”. (Selected Images) Paley Center, Los Angeles, CA. 2/1/10-5/31/10 * 2011 ''Injured Soldiers and Marines'', Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX, * 2011 ''The Black List: Volumes 2 and 3'', Rice University, Houston, * 2011 ''The Black List: Volumes 2 and 3'', Bucknell University, * 2011 ''The Latino List: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders'', The Brooklyn Museum * 2011 ''The Black List: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders'', The National Portrait Gallery, * 2012: ''About Face Portraits'', Paley Center, New York, NY, * 2013 ''The Latino List'', High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, * 2013 ''Supermodels'', Bernd Kluser Gallery, Munich, Germany, * 2013 ''The Out List'', Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX, * 2014-15 ''The Boomer List'', The Newseum, Washington, D.C., * 2015 ''The Women's List'', Hearst Tower, New York, NY, 09/21/2015-12/31/15 * 2016 "The Boomer List" Washington Pavilion Visual Arts Center – Sioux Falls, SD, * 2016 "The Women's List" Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York, NY * 2016-17 ''Identity: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, The List Portraits'', Annenberg Space for Photography, LA, CA, * 2017-18 "The Boomer List" North Carolina Museum of History – Raleigh, NC, * 2017 "The Boomer List" Brattleboro Museum – Brattleboro, VT, * 2017 "The Boomer List" Florida Museum of Photographic Arts – Tampa, FL, * 2017 "The Boomer List" Photographic Center Northwest – Seattle, WA, * 2017 ''The Trans List'', Wetterling Gallery, Sweden, 2017 * 2018 ''50 Women'', Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT. * 2018-19 ''The Latino List'', International Museum of Art & Science, McAllen, TX * 2018 ''The Trans List'', The Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY, * 2018 "The Boomer List" The Haggin Museum – Stockton, CA • * 2018 "The Boomer List" Morris Museum – Morristown, NJ, * 2018 "The Boomer List" Springfield Museum of Art – Springfield, OH * 2018 "The Boomer List" The Naper Settlement, Naperville, IL * 2019 "The Boomer List" Museum of the Albemarle – Elizabeth City, NC, * 2021 "The Boomer List" Scarfone/Hartley Gallery at the University of Tampa – Tampa, Fl.,

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 Liliana is derived from the Latin word 'lilium' or 'lilion', both mean 'lily' in English. Due to this, the name means "pure" and "innocent". The name is generally found in North America, though it is more common in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese ...

References

External links

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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders interview
with David Schonaur from September 2015

radio interview with

Terry Gross Terry Gross (born February 14, 1951) is an American journalist who is the host and co-executive producer of ''Fresh Air'', an interview-based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed nationally by NPR. Since joining NPR i ...

from July 2012
The Treatment
radio interview with

Elvis Mitchell Elvis Mitchell (born December 6, 1958) is an American film critic, host of the public radio show ''The Treatment'', and visiting lecturer at Harvard University. He has served as a film critic for the ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'', the ''LA Weekly ...

from September 2006
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
interview about his book, "XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits" on

from January 2005
Annenberg Space for Photography announces show for the man behind 'The Black List,' 'The Trans List'
in the ''Los Angeles Times'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Greenfield-Sanders, Timothy American documentary filmmakers American portrait photographers 20th-century American photographers 21st-century American photographers Photographers from New York (state) Grammy Award winners AFI Conservatory alumni 1952 births Living people Columbia College (New York) alumni