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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
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GAY ART LEGEND AND PK NARCISS DIRECTOR JAM BIDGOOD, IN HIS OWN WORDS
In addn to his elaborately staged imag of gay fantasi, he ma the film “Pk Narciss,” a cult classic released anonymoly 1971. * gay art pink *
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.
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JAM BIDGOOD, A MASTER OF GAY PHOTOGRAPHY, DI AT 88
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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. 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.
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”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.
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”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. The first terpretatn of the Ganyme tale is born om the homosexual relatns that were acknowledged some ancient Greek stat.