Into the Bonnieverse

On view: April 20-May 5, 2022

A special engagement of Bonnie Schiffman’s iconic photography, featuring rare Polaroids, personalized letters, answering machine messages, photo scans, final prints, and proof sheets of famous figures. The exhibition also includes an educational component on the history of photography. There will be a small presentation of darkroom equipment and vintage cameras, including equipment owned by the Muckenthaler family

For over 40 years, Bonnie Schiffman has photographed icons like Robin Williams, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jackson, Jerry Seinfeld, Betty White, Steve Jobs and countless others. Her uniquely stylized celebrity portraits have been seen all across the world in magazines including Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Esquire and included in the permanent collection of 68 museums.

“Bonnie understands funny people,” said comedian Billy Crystal in his forward to her Rolling Stone Book of Comedy. “In one picture, in a split second, Bonnie got all of it. She caught a side of me that is more revealing than any other portraits I have.”