In addn to his elaborately staged imag of gay fantasi, he ma the film “Pk Narciss,” a cult classic released anonymoly 1971.
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- JAM BIDGOOD, A MASTER OF GAY PHOTOGRAPHY, DI AT 88
- WAKEFIELD POOLE, PNEER GAY PORNOGRAPHY, DI AT 85
- TREAT WILLIAMS, LGBTQ+ ALLY GAY-THEMED FILMS, DEAD AT 71
JAM BIDGOOD, A MASTER OF GAY PHOTOGRAPHY, DI AT 88
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThose we’ve lostIn addn to his elaborately staged imag of gay fantasi, he ma the film “Pk Narciss, ” a cult classic released anonymoly Tullo for The New York TimPublished Feb. 7, 2022Jam Bidgood, who elevated mpy gay photography the 1960s and ’70s wh his refully staged phantasmagoric pictur, and who was the anonymo director behd “Pk Narciss, ” a gay film released 1971 that beme somethg of a cult classic, died on Jan.
WAKEFIELD POOLE, PNEER GAY PORNOGRAPHY, DI AT 85
He gave up a dance reer to create a crossover, and now classic, h film 1971 that had both gay and straight dienc, and celebri, lg up to see . * film gay obituary *
Bidgood was also shootg the film that, 1971, would turn to “Pk Narciss, ” the loosely plotted story of a gay htler’s fantasi.
Vcent Canby, reviewg the movie The Tim when opened two Manhattan theaters May of that year, dismissed as “a passive, tackily rated surreal fantasy out of that pre‐Gay‐Activist era when homosexuals hid closets and read novels about sensive young men who mted suici bee they uld not go on. For years, as the film gaed chet the gay world, gusg who had ma was a parlor game. “Sce workg wh Bidgood’s materials, ” she said by email, “I’ve unrstood the ep importance of his work on so many queer people, who have shared wh me that they had not seen beg gay as betiful the same way before seeg Jam’s work.
TREAT WILLIAMS, LGBTQ+ ALLY GAY-THEMED FILMS, DEAD AT 71
”His photographs, she noted, were ma at a time when erotic imag and gay liftyl faced substantial legal rtrictns. Clients would hire him to sign their outfs for society balls, and once he started takg photographs, he would sometim recycle those gowns to create the scen for the pictur he took his his first seri of homoerotic photographs, “Water Colors, ” he created the ocean by spreadg silver lamé across his apartment floor and fabrited a ve out of wax paper. A GoFundMe page was seekg to fance a funeral and creatn of an archive of his Bidgood’s photographs were often labeled “mp, ” a term whose fn has varied over the s wh the gay world and beyond.