Gay Art Legend and Pk Narciss Director Jam Bidgood, In His Own Words | AnOther

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• GAY ART LEGEND AND PK NARCISS DIRECTOR JAM BIDGOOD, IN HIS OWN WORDS
• JAM BIDGOOD, A MASTER OF GAY PHOTOGRAPHY, DI AT 88
• GAY ART PRTS
• GAY ART

GAY ART LEGEND AND PK NARCISS DIRECTOR JAM BIDGOOD, IN HIS OWN WORDS

Gay Art Legend and Pk Narciss Director Jam Bidgood, In His Own Words | AnOtherJam Bidgood© Jam Bidgood, “Sandstle” (Bobby Kendall and Jay Garv), early 1960s, Vtage C-prt, Courty of ClampArt New York CyAs the groundbreakg artist and filmmaker di, revis this Another Man terview om 2019, which Bidgood remds that “you have to feel art. As an outsir, liberated om the nstrats of the art market, Bidgood revolutnised gay male erotic imagery by applyg the pulp and glamour athetics of the 1940s and 50s to “physique photography”, the highly d gay pornography that refully transgrsed the censorship of full-ontal nudy, which was nsired a crime of “obsceny” by the US ernment.

The culmatn of his visn was realised the film Pk Narciss, pictg the allegoril fantasi of a gay prostute, which beme an unrground h when was released 1971. 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.

JAM BIDGOOD, A MASTER OF GAY PHOTOGRAPHY, DI AT 88

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. ”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. ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 16 of the New York edn wh the headle: Jam Bidgood, Master of Campy Gay Photography, Is Dead at 88.

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The first terpretatn of the Ganyme tale is born om the homosexual relatns that were acknowledged some ancient Greek stat.

The relatnships were not what we would today ll homosexual. Even as they emphasised the Christian msage of this scene, homosexual artists of the Renaissance were not bld to the more obv meang of the Ganyme myth. Some patrons may have requted a versn of the Ganyme myth as an exprsn of their homosexual sir.

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In poetry, plays, and even mon parlance, Ganyme me to stand for both paedophilic and homosexual tast. Homosexualy the morn sense was only named and acknowledged the late neteenth century. While many homosexual men had to rema gey about their love, there were some outspoken artists who were relatively open about their sir.

Today his works, cludg a patg of Ganyme before he is rried off, are some of the few ma by a homosexual artist that explore the psychology of gay men. Dpe the ubiquy of Ganyme wtern art, his populary fell away the late neteenth century favour of another symbol for homosexual love. It may be that openly displayg a work of Ganyme, wh all of s illic homosexual unrton, would too openly 'out' a llector as a Ganyme himself.

For homosexual Grand Tourists, Anto proved irristible. In one of the most famo portras of Wckelmann, the great art historian and homosexual n be seen proudly examg an engravg of a statue of Anto. By the late neteenth century, Anto had e to replace Ganyme as the in of choice for gay art llectors.