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| Charles Gatewood |
| Charles Gatewood photography books. Charles Gatewood
was educated at the University of Missouri as a cultural anthropologist, and
discovered photography there. In 1964 he moved to Sweden to explore
socialism and escape the Vietnam War. Gatewood returned to America in 1966
to launch one of the most unusual careers in the history of photography. He
worked as a photojournalist, shooting rock musicians for Rolling Stone,
social problems for Saturday Review and protests for the New York Times.
"I've worked," he says,"for everyone from Time and Business Week to sex
magazines and textbook publishers." Gatewood's first important exhibition
took place in 1972 at Manhattan's Light Gallery. Since that time he has had
over thirty acclaimed solo shows in the major cultural centers of Europe and
North America, as well as Australia. Each of his eight books of photographs
has been culturally provocative, from Sidetripping, with William Burroughs
(Strawberry Hill Books, 1975) through Primitives (R. Mutt Press, 1992) which
was the advance for the international Modern Primitives movement. He has won
numerous awards and fellowships, including the prestigious Leica Medal of
Excellence for Outstanding Achievement in Humanistic Photojournalism for
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