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"Gatewood picked up where Diane Arbus left off"
Robert Crumb
Charles Gatewood’s work is a unique representation of documentary brilliance. He has documented the American underground for over 45 years with a lens that captured everything from the slums of 1970’s Lower East Side in New York City to the affluence of Wall Street, and such luminaries as Bob Dylan, William S. Burroughs and Andy Warhol. Gatewood has published
over a dozen books and his early work had a distinct political
edge. Between 1966 and 1978, the artist lived in Manhattan and took an interest in photo documentation of the counterculture, demonstrations, protests, the club scene and social upheaval of the time. Like photographers Arbus, Friedlander and Frank, he has a rare gift in recording extreme examples of America’s cultural consciousness. Gatewood’s first book ‘Sidetripping,’ a collaboration with William S. Burroughs, was critically acclaimed.
Between 1972 and 1976 Gatewood made frequent trips to New York's financial district resulting in a series of beautiful architectural photographs entitled ‘Wall Street.’ These images are ethereal, formal and emotionally void with an underlying theme of capitalism and control. The extended photo essay ‘Wall Street’ published in 1984 was awarded the Leica Medal of Excellence for Outstanding Humanistic Photojournalism.
McGovern Design House specializes in early documentatry work including rare vintage and new prints by Charles Gatewood.
Excerpt from Interview with Gatewood by Paul Benchley
There's a famous quote from Flaubert: "One does not
choose ones subject matter--one submits to it.'" I never
had to think about what I wanted to photograph. It was
the Sixties. There were anti-war protesters and Hells
Angels and Black Panthers and crash pads and naked hippie
chicks, and when I moved to New York City in l966 I found
myself right in the middle of it all.
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