Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 10:57am
People often ask about this photograph. Where was it taken? What was happening? I'm always happy to talk about this image, because of all the photos I've taken, "Miriam on the Waterbed...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 11:52am
People often ask—am I a voyeur?
Well, yes I am. Obviously, I like to watch, especially when explosive subject matter pops my eyeballs. But that's just one level, one of many. A voyeur...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 12:50pm
On November 4, 1968, a sassy new tabloid newspaper appeared on New York newsstands. Screw cost twenty-five cents and was devoted entirely to sex and porn. Because of the growing demand for...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 10:58am
In 1969 a "serious documentary" called Pornography in Denmark opened in a New York movie theatre and didn't get busted. That opened the door to other explicit films, like Sex USA and...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 1:07pm
Back in New York after shooting Mardi Gras, I got a call from Trixie, a six-foot drag queen (and fellow New Yorker) I'd photographed on Bourbon street. "You invited me to your studio,...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 12:51pm
I learned a lot about homosexual culture by reading C.A. Tripp's book, The Homosexual Matrix. I was especially interested in Tripp's ideas about the nature of sexual arousal. Erotic...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 1:58pm
In 1975, I discovered a wonderful book, The Homosexual Matrix, by C.A. Tripp. I learned a lot from that groundbreaking study. For example, there are subtle distinctions between men in drag, stage-...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 7:00am
In 1970, photographer George Gardner invited me to join him on a trip to photograph Mardi Gras madness in New Orleans. We drove there in George's old Pugeot, and slept in the car for a week. It...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 12:00pm
In the fall of 1966, I started taking nude photos of neighborhood girls in my East Village tenement apartment. My favorite model was Suzy, the cute Italian-American babe who lived across the street...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 12:00pm
Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was a champion of free love and free expression, two of my favorite subjects. Years before, I eagerly followed the news when Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti of San...
EditrixAbby, Friday, July 30, 2010 - 11:33am
I met Adrian Buckmaster at a One Leg Up party. He and his friend stood out in a room full of bland corporate types. He was wearing a floor-length linen skirt and an interesting mustache; his friend...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 12:00pm
On a hot August day in 1966, I moved into a $52 tub-in-kitchen tenement apartment on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The building was a wrec, but it was filled with fun-loving artists and hippies. I...
Charles Gatewood, Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 5:59pm
I met artist Joseph Westerfield after a jazz musician friend told me Joe needed a photographer to take erotic pictures of naked models and amorous couples. Well, I may be dumb, but I ain't crazy. I...
EditrixAbby, Saturday, July 17, 2010 - 8:00am
Molly Crabapple is a Renaissance woman with a dirty Victorian mind wrapped up in a voluptuously Rococo body. She is an artist, an artist's model, a burlesque dancer and a businesswoman. And a...
Chris Hall, Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 4:19pm
Vanilla Sex
Michael Rosen
Shaynew Press
$40.00 or available as a free PDF download, 65 pp.
The extent to which Michael Rosen's photography has shaped my sexual imagination can be...
