James Bidgood Color Photography
American, 1933-2022
One of the quintessential creators of homoerotic imagery, filmmaker and photographer James Bidgood produces unique and instantly recognizable works infused with a vividly colorful sense of fantasy and theatricality. Drawing on his background as a dressmaker, costume designer, and drag performer, Bidgood conjures the exotic world of his photographs from scratch, creating works with a heightened artificiality and high camp sensibility. In Bidgood’s photographs, naked or scantily clad young men, often covered in a glistening sheen of Vaseline, pose in lurid landscapes of the imagination while draped over beds or in fields of flowers and dressed as glittering matadors or pointy-eared fauns. Combining vibrant colors, dramatic lighting, and baroque sets, his photographs bring to life a feverish, dreamlike fantasy world one step removed from reality. He has become a major influence on figures such as David LaChapelle and Pierre et Gilles.
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Artist: James Bidgood
Cyclist Sprawled on Tiles in Front of Urinals
By James Bidgood
Located in New York, NY
Cyclist Sprawled on Tiles in Front of Urinals
from “Pink Narcissus” (Trate Farell),
mid- to late 1960s/2022
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
Digital...
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1960s Contemporary James Bidgood Color Photography
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Valentine
By James Bidgood
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
15 x 15 inches, image
(Edition of 25)
22 x 22 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
31 x 31 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
A stylistic precursor of such artists as Pierre et Gilles...
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1960s Other Art Style James Bidgood Color Photography
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Bullfighter
By James Bidgood
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
15 x 15 inches, image
(Edition of 25)
22 x 22 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
31 x 31 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
A stylistic precursor of such artists as Pierre et Gilles and David LaChapelle, James Bidgood revolutionized gay male...
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1960s Other Art Style James Bidgood Color Photography
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C Print
Hanging Off Bed
By James Bidgood
Located in New York, NY
Hanging Off Bed
(Bobby Kendall),
mid- to late 1960s/2022
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
Digital C-print
31 x 31 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
$4,500
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(Ed...
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1960s Contemporary James Bidgood Color Photography
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Cadet
By James Bidgood
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
15 x 15 inches, image
(Edition of 25)
22 x 22 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
31 x 31 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
A stylistic precursor of such artists as Pierre et Gilles...
Category
1960s Other Art Style James Bidgood Color Photography
Materials
C Print
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