Book Description
Badlands is the most comprehensive book of cult photographer Charles Gatewood's images-and the best photo documentation of America s sexual underground: tough, sexy photos of society's self-chosen outcasts. For over three decades Gatewood has been photographing alternative lifestyles, beginning in the late sixties to the tattooed, pierced, SM fetish freaks of today. With the intensity of someone living the life right beside his subjects, Gatewood documented the changes in America, in western society. The radical discovery encoded in his photographs? That after the upheavals, dictatorships and revolutions, humans have returned to their roots. In Gatewood's photos, the individual reigns, the remains when there's nothing left but self. As realities, as documents, as works of art, Charles Gatewood s photos are snippets of the human condition -not dark, but on the trail of life.
Publisher comments
It's America's sexual underground:SM,Fetish,Tattos,Freaks,..
Gatewood's world is freakish, earthy, blunt, erotic - most of all terribly and beautifully alive. -A.D. Coleman, The New York Times.
Gatewood's world is freakish, earthy, blunt, erotic - most of all terribly and beautifully alive. -A.D. Coleman, The New York Times.
The American photographer, Charles Gatewood, has a weakness for the "outcasts" of our society. He now presents his latest book published by Goliath Verlag - 448 pages strong, with lots of pictures. It is the most comprehensive book to be compiled on Gatewood's photos. Starting in the late sixties during the time of the protest movement and sexual revolution, to outlaws, tattoos, piercing, freaks, SM and fetish. "Badlands" is the best photo documentation America's sexual underground has to offer: tough, blunt, erotic and already a cult.
