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James Alan Bidgood (March 28, 1933 – January 31, 2022), also known by the pseudonym Les Folies des Hommes, was an American filmmaker, photographer and visual and performance artist, known for his highly stylized and homoerotic works.
Feb 4, 2022 · James Bidgood, who elevated campy gay photography in the 1960s and ’70s with his carefully staged phantasmagoric pictures, and who was the anonymous director behind “Pink Narcissus,” a gay film...
Feb 1, 2022 · The filmmaker and photographer, who made a gay classic in his apartment, died at 88 in New York City. He also designed gowns, performed as a drag artist, and influenced artists and musicians.
James Bidgood, who elevated erotic gay photography to an art in the 1960s and ’70s with his carefully staged phantasmagoric pictures, and who was the anonymous director behind “Pink Narcissus,” a gay film released in 1971 that became something of a cult classic, died Jan. 31 in Manhattan. He was 88.
James Bidgood (1933-2022) was a self-taught filmmaker who made Pink Narcissus (1971), a cult classic of gay erotica. He also worked as a photographer, dancer, and window-dresser in New York City.
- Director, Actor, Writer
- March 28, 1933
- James Bidgood
- January 31, 2022
Feb 6, 2022 · James Bidgood, whose groundbreaking queer photographs and film influenced American art, died on Monday, January 31, 2022, from complications due to Covid-19. He was 88.
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Sep 16, 2022 · Learn about the life and work of James Bidgood, a groundbreaking queer artist who created glamorous and sensual photos of naked men in the 1960s. See his unseen images in a new exhibition in New York and read his interviews and stories.
