- John Gossage
John Gossage (born 1946) is an American photographer, noted for his
artist's book s and other publications using his photographs to explore under-recognised elements of the urban environment such as abandoned tracts of land, debris and garbage, and graffiti, and themes of surveillance, memory and the relationship between architecture and power.Gossage was born in
Staten Island ,New York City in 1946 and at an early age became interested in photography, leaving school at 16 and taking private instruction fromLisette Model ,Alexey Brodovich and Bruce Davidson. He later moved toWashington, D.C. to study, and subsequently received a grant from theWashington Gallery of Modern Art which allowed him to remain in the city and refine his photographic technique. He has shown his photographs in solo and group exhibitions since 1963 and his work is held in numerous private and public collections, including theMuseum of Modern Art in New York, theCorcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., theSprengel Museum inHanover ,Germany , and theCanadian Centre for Architecture inMontreal .His publications include "Berlin in the Time of the Wall" (2004), which draws from some 10,000 images taken during more than twenty years of study of the city, "The Romance Industry" (2002), "Empire" (2000), "There and Gone" (1997), "The Things That Animals Care About" (1988), "Stadt des Schwarz", "LAMF: Three Days in Berlin 1987" (1987), and "Hey Fuckface!" (1984), a study of some of the Environmental Protection Agency-listed hazardous waste sites in and near Staten Island and
Syracuse, New York . Several of these books are published in unusual formats, such as a wooden box with sliding Plexiglas panel, or with a newspaper clipping dustcover. Gossage collaborated with then-wifeTerri Weifenbach on the photographic book "Snake Eyes" (2002). After a number of years withNazraeli Press his usual publisher is nowLoosestrife Editions and Steidl Verlag.He has taught at the
University of Maryland, College Park and curated several photographic exhibitions. He lives and works in Washington, D.C.References
* [http://authorities.loc.gov/webvoy.htm Anglo-American Name Authority File, s.v. "Gossage, John R.", LC Control Number n 79075639] . Accessed 11 May 2006.
* [http://www.cca.qc.ca/pages/Niveau3.asp?page=expoempire&lang=eng Canadian Centre for Architecture; Exhibitions, 'Empire'] . Accessed 11 May 2006.
* Gossage, John. "Hey Fuckface!" (Tucson, Arizona: Nazraeli Press, 2002).
* [http://www.nazraeli.com/ Nazraeli Press] . Accessed 11 May 2006.
* [http://www.photoeye.com/templates/ShowDetailsbyCat.cfm?Catalog=tr071 Photo-eye, "Hey F**kface"] . Accessed 11 May 2006.
* [http://www.photoeye.com/templates/mShowDetailsbycat.cfm?Catalog=ZC017 Photo-eye, "Snake Eyes"] . Accessed 11 May 2006.
* [http://www.photographynow.de/artists/publi_K11825.html?PHPSESSID=d669e685dbb23b2f810f57b7247b2f06 Photography-now.com. "John Gossage"] . Accessed 11 May 2006.
* [http://www.imagearts.ryerson.ca/imagesandideas/pages/reference.cfm?page=201 Ryerson University; The Kodak Lecture Series; John Gossage, Date of Lecture: 1999-11-12] . Accessed 11 May 2006.
* [http://www.stephendaitergallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=29 Stephen Daiter Gallery; Artists; John Gossage] ] . Accessed 11 May 2006.
* [http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=gossage%2C+john&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500102927 Union List of Artist Names, s.v. "Gossage, John"] . Accessed 11 May 2006.
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