Wall Street by Charles Gatewood - 1984

Woodstock, NY: Charles Gatewood / Flash Productions, 1984. First edition. Oblong softcover. Number 247 from an edition of 700 copies. Features a brief introduction by A.D. Coleman. A collection of black and white photographs all taken in and around the Wall Street area of New York City with the images having echoes of Ray Metzker, Paul Strand, and Harry Callahan. A very good copy in wrappers from the library of the Visual Studies Workshop with their sticker shadow to the front cover, a sticker to the verso of the rear cover, and rubberstamp and notation to the copyright page. Signed by Gatewood on the title page and with a laid in short note presenting this book to Joan Lyons who along with her husband was the founder of the Visual Studies Workshop. Despite being an ex-library copy this is a very nice copy with an interesting history.

Sun in Scorpio. Very Good-. 1984. Hardcover. No. 81 of limited edition of 700 (less than half of which are in hardcover). Signed by Gatewood on title page, and also inscribed to artist Michael Bolin on publisher's page. Binding is solid. Pages unmarked and barely aged. Black cloth cover is a little scuffed and front board is bowed. No dustjacket. Also includes cancelled check from Bolin to Gatewood. .

Woodstock, NY: Sun in Scorpio Press. 1984. First edition. First edition. Hardcover issue. Signed by the author. Oblong quarto. Publisher's original black cloth over boards with title lettering in silver to upper panel. Light rubbing to the extremities but certainly a near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. With an introduction by A. D. Coleman. Limited edition of 700 copies, around 550 of which were issued in paperback. This copy one of scarce hardcover issue, numbered 320 and signed by Charles Gatewood in black ink on the title page. A superb volume that deserves a wider audience. Gatewood is best known as a photographer who documents the sexual underground and helped launch the Modern Primitives meme into popular consciousness. This, however, is undoubtedly his best book, and one of the notable American photo books of modern times. Unlike his other work that emphasises sexuality and the idiosyncrasies… Read More