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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. Estate represented by CLAMP in New York City.
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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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C Print

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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C Print

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 22 x 22 inches, image (Ed...
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1960s Contemporary James Bidgood Color Photography

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C Print

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...
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1960s Other Art Style James Bidgood Color Photography

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C Print

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Previously Available Items
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By James Bidgood
Located in New York, NY
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