Jerrold Schatzberg (born June 26, 1927) is an American photographer and film director. After establishing himself as a successful celebrity and fashion photographer, he transitioned to making feature films, as a part of the New Hollywood movement.
He is best known for his films The Panic in Needle Park (1971), for which he was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival (and lead actress Kitty Winn won Best Actress); and Scarecrow (1973), which won the shared Palme d'Or at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
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Early life and education
Schatzberg was born to a Jewish family of furriers and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were not artistic, and he remarks that his only exposure to arts during his childhood was going to the movies with his father on weekends. When he was 13, his family moved to Rego Park, Queens, where he attended Forest Hills High School. He enlisted in the US Navy at the end of World War II, then continued after the war ended as a hospital corpsman for two years. After the Navy, he attended the University of Miami for a year before returning to New York City to work for his family's fur business.
