James Bidgood Portrait 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.(Biography provided by CLAMP)
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Artist: James Bidgood
Blue Boy
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...
Category
1960s Other Art Style James Bidgood Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Pan from Behind
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...
Category
1960s Other Art Style James Bidgood Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Apache
By James Bidgood
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
19 x 15 inches, image
(Edition of 25)
29 x 22 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
39 x 30 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...
Category
1960s Other Art Style James Bidgood Portrait Photography
Materials
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...
Category
1960s Other Art Style James Bidgood Portrait Photography
Materials
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...
Category
1960s Other Art Style James Bidgood Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (Sandcastles Series #3)
By James Bidgood
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Sandcastles Series #3)
1963
Signed, verso
Vintage print
3.5 x 3.5 inches (8.9 x 8.9 cm), image
$5,000
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
1960s Contemporary James Bidgood Portrait Photography
Materials
Color
Jack Frost on Snowflake with Black Background
By James Bidgood
Located in New York, NY
Jack Frost on Snowflake with Black Background
mid-1960s
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
Digital C-print
31 x 31 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
22 x 2...
Category
1960s James Bidgood Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Pink Flowers, Water Colors
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 ...
Category
1960s Other Art Style James Bidgood Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Huck Finn
By James Bidgood
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
17 x 15 inches, image
(Edition of 25)
24 x 22 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
34 x 30 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...
Category
1960s Other Art Style James Bidgood Portrait Photography
Materials
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...
Category
1960s Contemporary James Bidgood Portrait Photography
Materials
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...
Category
1960s Other Art Style James Bidgood Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Pan
By James Bidgood
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
15 x 15 inches, image
(Edition of 25)
Sold out.
22 x 22 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
$9,000
31 x 31 inches, image
(Edition of 1...
Category
1960s Other Art Style James Bidgood Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
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