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Born 1942. Charles Gatewood began photographing the underground of America in the 1960's, after having received a BA in Anthropology from the University of Missouri. Wherever there's been a congregation of Body Modification enthusiasts, or oddities of the underbelly of society, Gatewood was there photographing their practices, rituals, and documenting aspects of culture that would otherwise never have been seen by a mainstream audience. This is evidenced through his 8 books, which run the gamut from the New Orleans Mardi Gras, to the most controversial followers of blood-play in San Francisco.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1972 Light Gallery, New York City
1975 Neikrug Gallery, New York City, ("Sidetripping")
1978 Brummels Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1976 The Australian Center of Photography, Sydney, Australia
1977 Levitan Gallery, New York City, ("X-1000")
1978 Steiglitz Gallery, New York City, ("Wall Street")
1978 Light Works, Syracuse University, ("Forbidden Photographs")
1978 Project Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ("Forbidden Photographs")
1978 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
1978 Contrejour Gallery, Paris
1978 Colorado Center for Photographic Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
1979 Gallery Vior, Toulouse, France
1981 Robert Samuel Gallery, New York City, ("Forbidden Photographs")
1984 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1986 Drew University, Madison, New Jersey
1988 Level Three Gallery, Philadelphia
1978 Bobo Gallery, San Francisco
1989 Neikrug Gallery, New York
1993 Morphos Gallery, San Francisco, ("Primitives")
1978 Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1994, 1996 Clayton Gallery, New York
1978 Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego
1995 Dark's Art Parlour, Santa Ana CA
1978 Komm Ausstellungswerkstatt, Nurenberg
1978 University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
1996 Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
1997 Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn
1998 Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Beverley Hills CA
2003 Photographs, Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Art Museum, New York
BOOKS:
Sidetripping (with William S. Burroughs), New York, Strawberry Hill Books, 1975
X-1000 (with Spider Webb and Marco Vassi), Woodstock, New York, R. Mutt Press, 1977
Pushing Ink: The Fine Art of Tattooing (with Spider Webb and Marco Vassi), New York,
Simon and Schuster, 1979
Forbidden Photographs, Woodstock, New York, R. Mutt Press, 1981, new edition 1995
Wall Street, Woodstock, New York, R. Mutt Press, 1984
Primitives, Woodstock, New York, R, Mutt Press, 1992
The Body and Beyond, San Francisco, Flash Publications, 1993
True Blood, San Francisco, Last Gasp Press, 1997
AWARDS:
1974 CAPS Fellowship in Photography, New York State Council on the Arts
1975 American Institute of Graphic Arts Award
1976 Artist-in-Residence, Light Work, Syracuse University
1977 CAPS Fellowship in Photography, New York State Council on the Arts
1980 Photographers' Fund Grant, Catskill Center of Photography, Woodstock, New York
1983 New York State Council on the Arts Fellowship for Wall Street
1985 Art Directors Club Merit Award
1978 Leica Medal of Excellence for Outstanding Humanistic Photojournalism
1986 Photographer's Forum Magazine Award of Excellence
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