DAVID GAMBLE (1953-)

“The photographs are about what they are about: men. Men caught in a gamut of activities from sleeping, to sitting, to walking, to breathing, to loving. None of them is staged; these men are caught – as it were – on the hoof. What most appealed to me about David Gamble’s photographs when I first saw them was that they expressed their masculinity inadvertently. These photographs, to my mind, caught the truth that masculinity was mostly a functional state.”
Will Self, author, introduction to Perfidious Man

Born in London and now in New York, David Gamble is a photographer and painter of international acclaim. Winner of the Grand Prix European Award, Best Photographer in Europe, Arles, France 1987, the World Press Award Holland (1988, 2nd prize, Science & Technology) for his portrait of Stephen Hawking, which was used as the cover for Hawking’s crucial book A Brief History of Time, and The American Photography Award (1989). Working throughout the 80s/early 90s for Observer Magazine, Independent, Sunday Times, Telegraph, Traveller Magazine, Time-Life, Fortune (NY), Paris Match, The New Yorker, Newsweek (NY), his back-list is a who’s who in pictures: every shot a winner, every detail sharp yet subtle. His photographs are in major institutions including the National Portrait Gallery. An important exhibition of his Andy Warhol photographs will tour the USA and Scandinavia in 2011.

“The distinguished photographer David Gamble is here in his black cape and scarlet shirt, his eyes missing no colour or shape as they dart to focus on every face and every corner of the room.”
J.P Donleavy, author

Publications include:
Perfidious Man (Viking, 2000) with Will Self.

Click here for selection from David Gamble’s archive at TopFoto.co.uk

David is also the only photographer we know of to say no to Mrs Thatcher, the “Iron Lady”.  He survived to tell the tale and you can see it here:
http://hamptons.plumtv.com/videos/artist_profile_photographer_david_gamble