Gordon Gahan
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| Gordon Gahan | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 5, 1945 New York City, New York |
| Died | October 19, 1984 (aged 38) Virgin Islands |
| Occupation | Photographer |
Gordon Gahan (November 5, 1945 – October 19, 1984) was an American photographer.
Photographer Gordon W. Gahan is perhaps best known for his work for the National Geographic Society in the 1970s and 1980s. He began working for the Society in 1968 as a contract photographer, and joined the staff in 1972. Assignments took Gahan around the world -- to Japan, Kenya, Senegal, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Greece, Soviet Union, East and West Germany, France, Switzerland, Portugal, England, Canada, United States, Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Belize, Panama, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu, French Polynesia, and Tonga. He left the National Geographic Society in 1982 to co-found his own photography business. Gahan died in 1984, while taking aerial photographs in the Virgin Islands for a client.
Prior to 1968, Gahan worked for United Press International and for the U.S. Army in Vietnam. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, from 1959 to 1963, and Columbia University, from 1963 to 1964.
Gahan's photography has won awards including the 1969 and 1970 Pictures of the Year competition sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association and the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Gahan's work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery and Harvard University.
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Michael Kukler, "Mike Garfield and Gordon W. Gahan," National Vietnam Veterans Review, [June 1982?].
- "Obituaries: Gordon Gahan, Photographer, Killed in Crash,", The Washington Post, October 21, 1984.
- Jane Livingston. Odyssey: the art of photography at National Geographic. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1988. Photo on Plate no. 237; bio on p.352.
- C.D.B. Bryan. The National Geographic Society: 100 Years of Adventure and Discovery. Abrams, 1997.
