Burroughs, William S.; Gatewood, Charles

Sidetripping

ISBN: 0891550011
New York, NY: Strawberry Hill, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. (Schottlaender, G48(A), pg. 170; Shoaf, Section I, No. 30, pg. 142). “Sidetripping is for today what Robert Frank’s The Americans was for the fifties — a satirical, hard-hitting, uncannily perceptive profile” (from Back Cover copy). The American author and photographer, Charles Gatewood (1942-2016) was born in Elgin, Illinois to a traveling salesman father and a homemaking mother. Soon after he was born, the Gatewood family relocated to Rolla, Missouri by way of Dallas, Texas. Eventually, the family made its way to Springfield, Missouri, where the young Charles attended junior high and high school. In 1960, Gatewood enrolled at the University of Missouri, where his journey as an artist and documentarian of street cultures began in earnest. The combination of a major in anthropology and a minor in art history lent itself to the work he'd later do as a photographer and documentarian. A gifted student, upon graduation Gatewood decided to continue his work in anthropology, but it was there that he met George Gardner, who was as gifted as a photographer as Gatewood was an anthropologist. It was this meeting that changed Gatewood’s path completely, — a change precipitated by Gardner gifting Gatewood the exhibition catalog for the Edward Steichen-curated (1879-1973) exhibition “The Family of Man,” a series of 503 photographs from 68 countries exhibited from January-May 1955 by the Museum of Modern Art. After the change of direction in ’64, Gatewood decided to attend the University of Stockholm, where for two years he lived and worked while studying sociology and apprenticing to a group of established documentary photographers. His next big break came on April 29, 1966, where he attended and photographed a Bob Dylan press conference — his photograph, titled “Dylan With Sunglasses and Cigarette,” was widely lauded, receiving press attention on a worldwide scale. It was at this time that Gatewood began to photograph celebrities, — most of them affiliated with the Jazz or Civil Rights Movements. In June of ’66, Gatewood returned to the United States and took residence in NYC’s Lower East Side. He apprenticed at Jaffe-Smith Photography in Greenwich Village for four years (1970-1974), and then worked primarily for The Manhattan Tribune. He also was employed by Rolling Stone Magazine, which in January 1972 sent Gatewood from New York to London to do a story on William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) — and this collaboration grew out of that initial meeting. First softcover Edition of 1975, featuring excerpts from The Wild Boys, The Ticket That Exploded, & Exterminator. In strong near fine condition with only mild-to-moderate shelf-wear, light-to-moderate bumping, rubbing, & age-toning to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine-edge; some spotting, rubbing, age-toning to text block throughout; & lone closed tear near top left-hand corner of front cover, otherwise clean. Near Fine. [Item #7056]

Price: $75.00