Photographer and filmmaker Bobby Sheehan began his eclectic career in the late seventies. While
still in high school, he designed visual presentations for the New York fashion emporium, Parachute.
At 17, and at the height of the punk rock scene, the then blue-haired Sheehan photographed the
musicians of the time; The Clash, The Ramones, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Blondie, Television,
Ultravox, 999 in addition to many New York based bands for the Village Voice, Soho News, Cream,
and Circus Magazine. He was contacted by Andy Warhol, a fan of Sheehan’s work for Parachute, to
collaborate on an art film, a project that was cut short with Warhol’s untimely death. Sheehan’s
fashion photography appeared regularly in GQ and New York Magazine.
Sheehan graduated from NYU’s film division of the Tisch School of the Arts and works as a director/
camerman. He is the founder of New York based Working Pictures Inc.
Sheehan’s Fine Art Photography was been exhibited nationally in galleries such as: Bridgewater
Lustburg in New York, Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles and the Vision Gallery in San Francisco.
The Dreyfus Foundation has purchased works by Sheehan for their permanent collection. |
