User:Neilgittings

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Neil Gittings,is an artist born in houston,texas in 1957. Gittings learned the art of photography working in the Gittings family business, GITTINGS PHOTOGRAPHY. Gittings has produced over 20,000 works of art including painting, photographic portraits, sculpture, and short films. In the 1960's, Gittings worked at the d'Amico Gittings studio and laboratory in Houston,texas at a time when the laboratory made dye-transfer prints from negatives taken during the Apollo 11 moon mission. During the 1970's, Gittings worked throughout southwest america. In 1984,while working in the Gittings studio at Bullocks Wilshire in Los Angeles, Gittings met Don Troop and Marisa Bozza and formed the rock group, the Naked Apes of Reason .The group performed throughout texas. The group then moved to Paris,France in 1990.The group performed for several years and broke up. In Paris, Gittings painted the coupole of the concert venue, The New Moon (formerly known as the Nouvelle Athens) at place Pigalle. In 1995,Gittings walked from Paris to ex-yougoslavia in protest of the war. This march culminated in a peace petition including the signatures of the P