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GASTON WARD CALLUM - LOU REED - JIMMY CARTER - JESSE JACKSON +

Gaston Ward Callum II. Large group of original negatives, contact sheets and five copies of his 11"x12" 2002 booklet "Homage to the Undwelled". Proofs include Jimmy Carter, Governor Jim Hunt, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Lou Reed, U2, Eddie Murphy. Negatives for most and there are also several unidentified performers. All are 1893-1984. In addition there is also a Michael Jordan Poster for Carolina with the Photograph for the poster having been taken by Gaston Ward Callum. Weight 3 pds 3 oz. Gaston Ward Callum II is currently a missing person, having vanished in 2010. Gaston Ward Callum II (b.1961) was born in Washington DC but moved to Wilmington NC, at the age of 3. Growing up in the Port City, Callum had the pleasure of competing against Michael Jordan in high school and the photographing him while attending UNC and serving as the Photography Editor of the Yakety Yack yearbooks in 1984-1985. He took what many consider the most Iconic photo of Michael Jordan #23 during his stint as a campus photographer. He In 1997, he founded Southland Historic Preservation based in Charleston, S.C., and got grants to continue his photography and compile it into a series of books. The first book was called Homage to the Undwelled, Featuring Vernacular Architecture of Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland. A lot of his photographic work concentrated on some of the earliest known buildings in the South, ranging from small vernacular farmhouses, slave cabins to plantation mansions. In 2005 The Gibbes Museum in Charleston SC had a special exhibition of Callum’s work, Undwelled: Photographs of Endangered Southern Architecture, showcases the work of Gaston Ward Callum II (American, b. 1961), a native of Wilmington, NC, who documents dormant vernacular architecture in ten states throughout the South. Presenting an exquisite photographic inventory of endangered early American architecture, Callum explores the significance of historic preservation in the context of "the ruin." Provocative black-and-white images of forgotten plantation mansions, slave cabins, mills, churches and farmhouses engender the exhibition with a rich, haunting appeal. Callum is a native of Wilmington, NC, and the founder of Southland Historic Preservation, a non-profit preservation organization founded in 1997. Many of the properties he has documented have been dismantled and moved; others have undergone or are currently undergoing preservation; and still others remain abandoned or have been destroyed. Callum's photographs present an exquisite photographic inventory of endangered early American architecture, emphasizing the significant architectural legacy of the American South and the importance of preserving such historical architecture before time, weather or neglect renders them unsalvageable. Missing since November 14, 2010. Callum was last seen by a family member Nov. 13 or 14 going for a run at the University of North Carolina Wilmington track. He was riding a mountain bike. Family members said Callum, who often showcased his photography, put all of his artwork in a storage unit in January 2010 after being evicted. In the storage unit he left behind a note on the back of a Michael Jordan photograph asking whoever found the photo to take care of it. He left all of his personal belongings behind including his wallet. The case remains under investigation. PROVENANCE: A Private South Carolina Estate