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Charles Gatewood (1942–2016)

Autore di Sidetripping

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Comprende il nome: Charles Gatewood

Opere di Charles Gatewood

Sidetripping (1975) 68 copie
Photography for Perverts (2003) 45 copie
Forbidden Photographs (1995) 16 copie
Primitives (2002) 15 copie
True Blood (1997) 13 copie
Badlands (2015) 11 copie
Messy Girls! (2015) 11 copie
People in focus (1977) 5 copie
Wall Street 3 copie

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I found this bk (probably on sale) at some shopping mall bk store (maybe they cdn't dump this 'weird crap' fast enuf, eh?!) when I was 22. It has photos by Charles Gatewood w/ commentary by William S. Burroughs. I suppose Gatewood deserves credit as an explorer of the often hidden aspects of society but it's Burroughs' commentary that does it for me. He appraises things w/o giving a shit of whether his take is PC or whatever. In response to one photo he writes:

A youth with clothespins pinching his nipples wearing a leather jacket and gauntlets with a whip tied around his waist looks at the camera with wooden face dead eyes that seem to turn up showing the whites as you watch. Is he a slave or victim who might turn up as a body in some Houston sex murder?

Instead of commenting on how 'hard-core' this guy looks, Burroughs gets right to the point: THIS IS A DEAD MAN, like a melancholic, WALLOWING IN DESTRUCTION - POSSIBLY HIS OWN. & it might be 'hip' & it might even be 'glamorous', but it's probably a DEAD END.
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tENTATIVELY | 1 altra recensione | Apr 3, 2022 |
Reprinted collection of black and white photos from New York, 1975, with a rambling introduction by William Burroughs. Very sexual, occassionally interesting
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