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James BidgoodHuck Finnmid-1960s
mid-1960s
$2,360
£1,787.48
€2,052.86
CA$3,307.13
A$3,595.52
CHF 1,906.35
MX$43,101.16
NOK 24,228.71
SEK 22,196.79
DKK 15,342.53
About the Item
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 and David LaChapelle, James Bidgood revolutionized gay male erotic imagery. From a cramped Hell’s Kitchen tenement apartment during the 1960s, the artist produced the bulk of his creative output of photographs. The artist was the first to take the pulp and glamour aesthetic of the 1940s and 1950s and apply it to male erotic fantasies: employing vibrant colors and exaggerated props and costumes to celebrate homosexuality and the male form in an explosion of colorful eroticism that has stood the test of time.
- Creator:James Bidgood (1933 - 2022, American)
- Creation Year:mid-1960s
- Dimensions:Height: 17 in (43.18 cm)Width: 15 in (38.1 cm)
- More Editions Sizes:22 x 22 inches, Edition of 15Price: $3,83530 x 30 inches, Edition of 15Price: $5,310
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU93233564211
James Bidgood
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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