Charles Gatewood

Charles Gatewood

Known for

Directing

Born

November 8, 1942

Died

April 28, 2016 (aged 73)

Biography

Charles Gatewood was a photographer, writer, videographer, artist and educator, who lived and worked in San Francisco, California. His work mapped, provocatively and disturbingly, the subcultures of strippers, sex-club devotees, bikers, body piercers and fetishists.

Best known work

Dances Sacred and Profane
Dances Sacred and Profane
1985
Charles Gatewood's Weird Thailand
Charles Gatewood's Weird Thailand
1989
Charles Gatewood's Forbidden Photographs
Charles Gatewood's Forbidden Photographs
1988
Once the Toothpaste Is Out of the Tube - An Art Apart: Charles Gatewood
Once the Toothpaste Is Out of the Tube - An Art Apart: Charles Gatewood
2015
The Gates of Gomorrah
The Gates of Gomorrah
2002
Charles Gatewood's Body Shock
Charles Gatewood's Body Shock
1990
Charles Gatewood's Weird America
Charles Gatewood's Weird America
1990
Charles Gatewood's Weird San Francisco
Charles Gatewood's Weird San Francisco
1988
Charles Gatewood's Weird Bike Week
Charles Gatewood's Weird Bike Week
1988
Charles Gatewood's Penetration 2
Charles Gatewood's Penetration 2
1991

Filmography

  1. 2015

    Once the Toothpaste Is Out of the Tube - An Art Apart: Charles Gatewood
  2. 2002

    The Gates of Gomorrah

    as Self

  3. 1993

  4. 1992

  5. 1991

  6. 1991

  7. 1990

  8. 1990

  9. 1989

  10. 1989

  11. 1988

  12. 1988

  13. 1988

  14. 1985

  15. 1985

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