James Bidgood Figurative 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.
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Artist: James Bidgood
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...
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1960s Other Art Style James Bidgood Figurative Photography
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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 Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
$10,030
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 Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Willow Tree
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...
Category
1960s Other Art Style James Bidgood Figurative 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 Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Pearl, 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 Figurative Photography
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Cyclist Sprawled on Tiles in Front of Urinals
By James Bidgood
Located in New York, NY
Cyclist Sprawled on Tiles in Front of Urinals
from “Pink Narcissus” (Trate Farell),
mid- to late 1960s/2022
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
Digital...
Category
1960s Contemporary James Bidgood Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
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