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In person and in conversation, Steve Schapiro was not the sort of guy you might imagine hanging around with David Bowie, shooting the breeze with Mia Farrow, walking country roads with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or hanging around with New York City heroin addicts.

But that was Schapiro, a lifelong photographer, a great and admired one, and as such a witness to many of the biggest stories and most interesting people of the last half century.

He died three years ago in Chicago, where he had lived for some years, but he comes alive in a new documentary, the appropriately titled “Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere.”

It is a wonderful film, 72 minutes long, making its local premiere over the weekend at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

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