Catherine Simon (born June 15, 1953) is an American

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photographer and writer. She is known for her photographs of influential musicians, artists, and writers, including

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Patti Smith Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter and author who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album '' Horses''. Called the "punk poe ...

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Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationsh ...

, and

William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular cultur ...

. One of her photographs of

Bob Marley Robert Nesta Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981; baptised in 1980 as Berhane Selassie) was a Jamaican singer, musician, and songwriter. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, his musical career was marked by fusing elements o ...

was used on the front cover of his 1978 album, ''

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''. Simon's photography has been featured in various books, magazines, and gallery exhibitions. In 2004, she published ''Rebel Music: Bob Marley and Roots Reggae,'' a book of her photographs of

Bob Marley and the Wailers Bob Marley and the Wailers (previously known as The Wailers, and prior to that The Wailing Rudeboys, The Wailing Wailers and The Teenagers) were a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae band. The founding members, in 1963, were Bob Marley (Robert ...

published by

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. Some of Simon's works are held in the permanent collections of the

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, the

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's National Portrait Gallery, and the

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Early life and education

Simon was born and raised in

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. She developed an interest in photography at an early age when her father, a doctor and amateur photographer, gave her a

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. Simon attended

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(GWU) in Washington D.C. During her second year, she studied abroad in Paris, France. She later took a photography course at GWU's

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. Shortly thereafter, she left college to pursue a career in photography.

Career

Early career

In 1972, Simon moved to London and was initially employed at

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, staffing the front desk and the library. She then worked as an independent photographer, capturing a shot of the poet

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after requesting to take his picture in an

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tea shop. Simon was later hired as a staff photographer by Dave Fudger, the art director for the music weekly, Disc. During her early career, she shot various rock artists such as

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, and

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. In 1974, she photographed

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while he recorded

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in Barnes, west London. The next year, in 1975, she traveled as a tour photographer for

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, and

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. she photographed a grinning

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, the sound engineer for The Who, holding a pistol to the head of Skynyrd's lead vocalist

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in a Greek restaurant,.. The same year, she began photoshoots with William S. Burroughs, a writer. Simon continued her career at additional publications such as ''

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'' and ''

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'', documenting musicians from the emerging punk rock scene. On April 23, 1976, she photographed the

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and their manager

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during the moments leading up to a concert fight with the audience at the Nashville Rooms in West Kensington, capturing the violence instrumental to the group's initial publicity. The following November, she took photographs of

in an alley outside

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’ Rehearsal Rehearsals in Camden, north London, one of which was used for the front cover of the group's self-titled debut album.

Bob Marley

In July 1975, Simon shot a performance by Bob Marley and The Wailers at the Lyceum Theatre in London. The next year, in 1976, she was sent to Jamaica by

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, the owner of

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, to photograph reggae artist

Bunny Wailer Neville O'Riley Livingston (10 April 1947 – 2 March 2021), known professionally as Bunny Wailer, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and percussionist. He was an original member of reggae group The Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. ...

for the promotion of his ''

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'' album. During the trip, she also photographed Wailer's fellow reggae pioneers including Bob Marley,

Peter Tosh Winston Hubert McIntosh, OM (19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987), professionally known as Peter Tosh, was a Jamaican reggae musician. Along with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, he was one of the core members of the band the Wailers (1963� ...

, and

Lee "Scratch" Perry Lee "Scratch" Perry (born Rainford Hugh Perry; 20 March 1936 – 29 August 2021) was a Jamaican record producer, composer and singer noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style. Perry was a pioneer in the 1970s development o ...

. Simon captured a photograph of Marley by the pool which appeared as the front cover for his album, ''Kaya''. The photograph was noted by

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as one of the historic images of the 20th century. Her photograph was noted in the Lens section of

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by John Leland who wrote: In 1977, Simon shot the European leg of Marley's Exodus Tour. She continued to photograph Marley for the next four years, documenting his performances and everyday life until his death in 1981.

Editorial and television

In 1977, Simon moved to New York City and began incorporating more poised portraitures into her portfolio. The same year, she photographed

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, the lead singer of Blondie, on the roof of a New York apartment. In 1978, Simon traveled with

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as the group's tour photographer. She also began appearing on ''

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'', a public access cable television show where she worked as the photographer and as one of

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's featured co-hosts. In 1978, Simon photographed

and

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outside a New York building. The following year, in 1979, she shot

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on the set of his "Rock with You" music video. The same year, she photographed Andy Warhol reading a newspaper while she was working for his publication,

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magazine. She also worked for

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magazine and was later credited for her "humanizing touch" in her photographs of the era's pop culture icons. In 1981, Simon was hired as the photographer for

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magazine. In 1983, she was assigned Madonna's first official professional photoshoot which took place on the roof of Simon's Manhattan apartment.

Select exhibitions and books

In 1995, she photographed William S. Burroughs, a last sitting culminating a twenty-year working relationship. One of the shots from the photoshoot of Burroughs' 70th birthday at the "Bunker" was used as the cover for his first posthumous selection of works, titled ''Word Virus''. She later contributed to Patti Smith's photo book, ''Patti Smith Complete'', released in 1998. In 1999, Simon's earlier photograph of Bob Marley on the Kaya album cover was included in the book, ''Les 100 photos du siècle'', by French journalist Marie-Monique Robin. Simon was interviewed by Robin who was researching photographs previously noted by the French television series, ''The 100 Photos of the Century'', as defining images of the 20th century. In 2008, she worked as a contributing editor for Interview magazine.

Personal life

Simon lives in

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, New York. She was previously married to

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, a founding band member of the

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Exhibitions

Solo

* Gallery Casa Sin Nombre, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1989 * Govinda Gallery, Washington D.C., "Rebel Music: Bob Marley & Roots Reggae”, 2004 * Murphy and Dine Wainscott, Long Island, New York, "Life is a Killer", 2008 * Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, California, "A Furious Heartbeat", 2009 * SHOWStudio, London, UK, "William S. Burroughs Portraits 1975–1995", 2014 * Fort Works Art Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas, "Chaos and Cosmos", 2019. 136 of Simon's photographs from 1973 to 2011.

Group

* Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, "Backstage Pass", 2009 included Simon's 2007 photograph of

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* Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York City, "Downtown Pix", 2010 * '' Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present,''

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, Brooklyn, New York, 2010. Curated by Gail Buckland. Included a portrait of

taken by Simon in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1976. * Irvine Contemporary, Washington D.C., "Image/Fame/Memory", 2011 * SHOWStudio, London, UK, “The Photography of Punk”, 2013 * The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, "Punk: Chaos to Couture”, 2013 * The National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., "American Cool", 2014 *''Williams S. Burroughs Portraits 1975–1995,''

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, London, 2014. * Glenn Horowitz Gallery, New York City, "The Downtown Decade", 2015 *''American Cool,'' Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery, 2014 * The Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, "Backstage Pass: Rock and Roll Photography”, 2017 * Red Bull Studios and Hunter College Art Gallery, New York City, "I ♥︎ John Giorno", 2017 * Museum of Sex, New York City, "Punk Lust: Raw Provocation 1971–1985”, 2019 *

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, "The Bright and Hollow Sky", 2020

Permanent collections

, New York City *

's National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. *

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, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania *

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: Richard Hell Papers, New York City *

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, New Haven, Connecticut *

Bob Marley Museum The Bob Marley Museum is a museum in Kingston, Jamaica, dedicated to the reggae musician Bob Marley. The museum is located at 56 Hope Road, Kingston, and is Bob Marley's former place of residence. It was home to the Tuff Gong reggae record label ...

, Kingston, Jamaica

Published works

* Simon, Kate, ''Rebel Music: Bob Marley & Roots Reggae.''

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, 2004. . 400 photographs of Bob Marley and other reggae artists. Edition of 2000 copies.

Works which include her photographs

* Alessandrini, Marjorie, ''Le Rock Au Féminin'', Editions Albin Michel, 1980, *Burroughs, William S., ''Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader'', Grove press, Inc., 1998, * Burroughs, William S., ''Queer'', Viking Penguin Inc., 1985, * Edited by Charlesworth, Chris, ''Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll'', Bobcat Books, 1985, * Skerl, Jennie, ''William S. Burroughs'', Twayne Publishers, 1985, * Hager, Steven, ''Art After Midnight: The East Village Scene'', St. Martin's Press, 1986, * Musto, Michael, ''Downtown'', Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, New York, 1986, * Acker, Kathy, ''Literal Madness: Kathy Goes to Haiti; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Florida'', Grove Press, Inc., 1988, * Odier, Daniel, ''The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs'', Penguin Books, 1989, * Chamberlain, Elwyn, ''Then Spoke the Thunder'', Grove Press, 1989, * Simon, Kate, Zoom Magazine, Volume 158, 1990 * Savage, Jon, ''England's Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock'', Faber and Faber Limited, 1991, * Edited by Scholder, Amy and Silverberg, Ira, ''High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings'', Dutton, a division of the Penguin Group, 1991, * Miles, Barry, ''Wiliam Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible'', Virgin Books, 1992, * Burroughs, William S., ''Ghost of Chance'', High Risk Books, 1995, * McNeil, Legs and McCain, Gillian, ''Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk'', Grove Press, 1996, * Caveney, Graham, ''The ‘Priest’, They Called Him: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs'', Bloomsbury, 1997, * Smith, Patti, ''Complete'', Doubleday, 1998, * Robin, Marie-Monique, ''The Photos of the Century: 100 Historic Moments'', Editions du Chêne – Hachette Livre (Original French edition), Evergreen, an imprint of Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH (Translated edition), 1999, * Edited by George-Warren, Holly, ''The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Generation and American Culture'', Rolling Stone Press, 1999, * DeRogatis, Jim, ''Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs'', Broadway Books, 2000, * Acker, Kathy, ''Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and The Burning Bombing of America'', Grove Press, 2002, * Murray, C., ''Rolling Stones: 40x20'', Billboard Books, 2002, * Edited by D’Ambrosio, Antonino, ''Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer'', Nation Books, 2004, * Kristal, Hilly and Byrne, David, Edited by Brazis, Tamar, ''CBGB & OMFUG: Thirty Years from the Home of Underground Rock'', Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2005, * Gagosian Gallery, ''Cast A Cold Eye: The Late Work of Andy Warhol'' Exhibition Catalog, Gagosian Gallery, 2006 * Salewicz, Chris ''Redemption Song: The Definitive Biography of Joe Strummer'', HarperCollins Publishers, 2006, * Farley, Christopher John, ''Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley'', Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2006, * Acker, Kathy, Edited by Scholder, Amy, Harryman, Carla, and Ronell, Avital, ''Lust for Life: on the Writings of Kathy Acker'', Verso, 2006, * Goldman, Vivien, ''The Book of Exodus: The Making & Meaning of Bob Marley & the Wailers’ Album of the Century'', Aurum Press Limited, 2006, * Purple Fashion Magazine, Volume III, Issue 8, 2007 * Strummer, Joe, ''The Clash'', Atlantic Books, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Ltd., 2008, * Denenberg, Thomas, ''Backstage Pass: Rock and Roll Photography'', Yale University Press, 2008, * Indiana, Gary, ''Andy Warhol and the Can that Sold the World'', Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2010, * Curley, Mallory, ''A Cookie Mueller Encyclopedia'', Randy Press, 2010 * Kasher, Steven, ''Max's Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll'', Harry N. Abrams, 2010, * Buckland, Gail, ''Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 – Present'', Abrams Image, 2010, * Deitch, Jeffrey, Fairey, Shepard, and D’Ambrosio, Antonino, ''Mayday: The Art of Shepard Fairey'', Gingko Press in association with Obey Giant, 2011, * Varvatos, John, ''John Varvatos: Rock in Fashion'', Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2013, * Goode, Eric and Goode, Jennifer, ''AREA: 1983 – 1987'', Harry N. Abrams, 2013, * Griffin, Chloe, ''Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller'', Bbooks Verlag, 2014, * Page, Jimmy, ''Jimmy Page'', Genesis Publication and Jimmy Page, 2014, * Hell, Richard, ''I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp'', Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2014, * Fairey, Shepard, ''Covert to Overt: The Under/Overground Art of Shepard Fairey'', Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2015, * Sevier, Rob and Shipley, Ken, ''Ork Records: New York City'', N. 060, The Numero Group, 2015 * Purple Fashion Magazine, Volume III, Issue 24, 2015 * Catalogue de l’exposition ''Jamaica Jamaica!'' présentée à la Philharmonie de Paris, La Découverte, 2017 * Boch, Richard, ''The Mudd Club'', Feral House, 2017, * Ingham, John, ''Spirit of 76: London Punk Eyewitness'', Anthology Editions, LLC, 2017, * Burroughs, William S., ''William S. Burroughs’ "The Revised Boy Scout Manual": An Electronic Revolution'', Ohio State University Press, 2018, * Led Zeppelin, ''Led Zeppelin'', Reel Art Press, 2018, * Hannah, Duncan, ''20th Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies'', Alfred A. Knopf, 2018, * Smith, Patti, ''Just Kids'' Illustrated Edition, HarperCollins, 2018, * Dobney, Jayson Kerr and Inciardi, Craig J., ''Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll'' Exhibition Catalog, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019,

References

External links

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