Charles Gatewood photo exhibition in San Francisco

Wall Street Man Pole
One of my favorite living photographers, Charles Gatewood, is best known for documenting the sexual underground, from extreme fetishists to modern primitives. In the 1970s though, Gatewood explored a very different kinky scene: Wall Street. Gatewood describes those documentary images, some of my absolute favorites from his body of work, as "formal and forbidding, providing a visual metaphor for a more secretive perversion, high finance." The Wall Street series, along with some of his incredibly provocative early photos of the sexual underground, will be shown at San Francisco's Robert Tat Gallery in an exhibition opening this Thursday, February 7, and running through March 29. For those unable to visit the gallery, Gatewood's work from this period can also be seen at the gallery's Web site and the artist's own site.

Link to online gallery,
Link to Gatewood's site (NSFW)