Kim Gottlieb-Walker
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Now a novelist living in Los Angeles’s famous Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles, Kim Gottlieb-Walker’s career as a photographer spanned over 50 years, from rock & roll and popular culture heroes of the '60s and '70s to motion pictures and television unit photography. She was an elected representative for still photographers in the International Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600, for over three decades. Her coffee table photo books "Bob Marley and the Golden Age of Reggae" and “On Set with John Carpenter " (on Halloween, the Fog, Christine Halloween II and Escape from NY) published by Titan Books, UK, have had multiple printings and also have editions in Japan, Russia and France. She also worked at Paramount as the unit photographer on Cheers for nine years and Family Ties for five, as well as the pilots for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and The Next Generation, and the last Bob Newhart show "Bob."
See more of her photographic work at www.Lenswoman.com and more about her novels at www.TheRenaissanceWoman.net. Her debut novel “Lenswoman in Love,” released in Feb this year, was inspired by her eclectic career and has already won multiple awards from Bookfest, The Chatelaine Awards, short-listed for The Hawthorne Award for American Fiction, a finalist in the International Book Awards, and first place in the National Independent Excellence Awards (in the Romance category). Her short story “Summer of Love, 1967” is included in the multi-award-winning short story anthology :Feisty Deeds.” |
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Rock is Lit Podcast
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Lenswoman in Love - a novel of the 1960s & '70s
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Historical Romance
In the turbulent 1960s and ’70s, Madeleine “Maddy” Garfield is a young woman with a camera, a keen eye for truth, and an unshakable drive to capture life in all its raw beauty. Raised in Berkeley by her widowed mother, Maddy’s world is steeped in music, art, and activism. From her father, she inherited not just a talent for photography but a sense of purpose—and from the world around her, a restless urge to chase justice, love, and her own identity. Her life changes the day she meets Jake Morganstern, a charming, fiercely intelligent wanderer with a passion for film. Their connection is immediate and electric, though timing and circumstance conspire to keep them apart. Through student protests, folk clubs, and the dawn of the counterculture, Maddy’s camera takes her everywhere—documenting the Free Speech Movement, police riots, music festivals, and behind-the-scenes moments with the era’s most iconic figures. But it is Jake who lingers in her heart, an unresolved story she can’t quite put down. As Maddy’s career in photography blossoms, she navigates friendships, heartbreaks, and the exhilarating chaos of Los Angeles and London’s music and film scenes. Each new adventure forces her to reconcile the fearless artist she’s becoming with the vulnerable young woman still longing for a man she met years before. Along the way, she discovers that sometimes the stories we’re meant to tell—through a lens or in life—are the ones that teach us who we are. Lenswoman in Love is a vivid, immersion into an unforgettable era, rich with the sights, sounds, and emotions of a generation in flux. Through Maddy’s eyes, readers witness not just a love story, but a chronicle of courage, independence, and the art of truly seeing. 
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On Set with John Carpenter
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Coffeetable photo book
John Carpenter’s producing partner Debra Hill hired photographer Kim Gottlieb-Walker to be the unit photographer on Halloween, and Kim soon became part of Carpenter’s filmmaking family, going on to shoot stills on the sets of some of his most iconic films: Halloween The Fog Escape from New York Halloween II Christine Collected together here for the first time is the best of that on-set photography, with iconic, rare, and behind-the-scenes previously unseen images. All accompanied by exclusive commentary from those involved, including John Carpenter himself, and other key crew and cast. 
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Bob Marley and the Golden Age of Reggae
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Coffeetable photo book
Hundreds of candid and intimate photographs of the artists and producers who brought the reggae sound to the international stage, captivating a generation. Includes never-before-seen shots of Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Toots Hibbert, Burning Spear, Jacob Miller, Third World, Lee “Scratch” Perry, and of course, Bob Marley, the reggae icon and subject of the biopic Bob Marley: One Love. With a foreword by acclaimed rock journalist and director Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous). During 1975 and 1976, renowned underground photo-journalist Kim Gottlieb, and her husband, Island publicity head Jeff Walker, documented what is now widely recognized as the Golden Age of reggae. Over 2 years of historic trips to Jamaica and exclusive meetings in Los Angeles, Kim took iconic photographs of the artists who would go on to define the reggae genre. Kim’s photographs include never-before-seen performance photos, candid behind-the-scenes footage of Bob’s home in Jamaica, and exclusive records of key moments in reggae history, such as Bob’s first US television appearance, the historical Dream Concert with Stevie Wonder in Jamaica, and Bob meeting George Harrison backstage at the Roxy in 1975. Reggae historian Roger Steffens' vivid contributions illustrate the significance of those early years in reggae documented in Kim’s photographs, many of which have not been seen in over 30 years, and many more of which have never been released to the public. Intimate and revealing, Bob Marley and the Golden Age of Reggae is a rare and beautiful record of one of the most exciting moments in music history, told through the photographs of a true artist. |
