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About me My name is Jim and I have been editing Wikipedia for approximately __ years. Born and raised in Bellingham, Washington I became interested in photography during my early teens and my first real job was at a portrait studio performing mostly processing of photo finishing from the public which I would pick up daily from a few drug stores in town and the County Assessor brought us film of properties throughout the area.
My three years in the United States Army was spent as an Instructor, Field Radio Repair in Fort Gordon, Georgia, Ansbach, Germany and Lenggries, Germany.
After separation from military I
worked as Test Technician at Martin Company in Littleton, Colorado performing Final Acceptance Testing on Titan I and Titan II R & D Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.
A portion of my biography from La MaMa Archives Digital Collectionsitems in Collection He is known for his prolific work documenting the early Off-Off Broadway movement. Gossage was introduced to the scene by Robert Berger in the early 1960s, and worked with Berger on several creative projects over the next few years. In 1965, Harry Koutoukas asked him to photograph a benefit for the post-fire Cino (at the Writers Stage on East 4th Street).
"From there," Gossage remembered (in an April 13, 2015 email to La MaMa), "I was invited to Cafe La MaMa at 122 Second Avenue," where he became something of a house photographer. Gossage began by photographing Tom Eyen's productions (and producing flyers and posters for Eyen's shows). But soon, a wide range of other artists were requesting that he photograph their productions, as well. Gossage relocated to the West Coast in 1976, and in 1980 began creating a comprehensive index of his Off-Off-Broadway photos (first "on a Radio Shack floppy computer" and then on a PC). Several years later he had completed a "database and report structure I was proud of."