
Person
Charles Gatewood
Directing · 1942–2016
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.
Known for

Once the Toothpaste Is Out of the Tube - An Art Apart: Charles Gatewood
2015
Dances Sacred and Profane
Himself

Charles Gatewood's Forbidden Photographs
1988
Charles Gatewood's Body Shock
Director

Charles Gatewood's Weird America
Director

Charles Gatewood's Weird Thailand
Himself

Charles Gatewood's Weird San Francisco
Director

Charles Gatewood's Weird Bike Week
Director

Charles Gatewood's Whipped & Shaved / Bloodbath
Director

Charles Gatewood's Weird Amsterdam
Director
Filmography
- 2015Once the Toothpaste Is Out of the Tube - An Art Apart: Charles Gatewood
- 2002The Gates of GomorrahSelf
- 1993Charles Gatewood's Whipped & Shaved / BloodbathDirector
- 1992Charles Gatewood's Erotic Tattooing and Body Piercing IVDirector
- 1991Charles Gatewood's Penetration 2Director
- 1991Charles Gatewood's Painless Steel IVDirector
- 1990Charles Gatewood's Body ShockDirector
- 1990Charles Gatewood's Weird AmericaDirector
- 1989Charles Gatewood's Weird ThailandHimself
- 1989Charles Gatewood's Weird AmsterdamDirector
- 1988Charles Gatewood's Forbidden Photographs
- 1988Charles Gatewood's Weird San FranciscoDirector
- 1988Charles Gatewood's Weird Bike WeekDirector
- 1985Dances Sacred and ProfaneHimself
- 1985Charles Gatewood's Weird Mardi GrasDirector
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