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The New York Times reports:
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 on Jan. 31 in Manhattan. He was 88.
Brian Paul Clamp, director of his gallery, ClampArt, said his death, in a hospital, was caused by complications related to Covid-19.
Mr. Bidgood, who came to New York from Wisconsin at 18, was a drag performer in the 1950s at Club 82 in the East Village, where he also sometimes designed sets and costumes. By the early 1960s he was taking photographs for men’s physique magazines like Muscleboy.
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James Bidgood, who elevated erotic gay photography to an art with his carefully staged phantasmagoric pictures, and who was the anonymous director behind “Pink Narcissus,” a gay film that has become something of a cult classic, has died at 88. https://t.co/QWuy9szbBV
— New York Times Arts (@nytimesarts) February 4, 2022
RIP to my old friend James Bidgood, one of the first mentors I got to work with in New York. He directed a film called Pink Narcissus—it’s a classic, some say a masterpiece. We’re all forever floating in the wake of his tide. pic.twitter.com/bOa9ruhIYM
— ᴘᴀᴛʀɪᴋ sᴀɴᴅʙᴇʀɢ (@PatrikSandberg) February 1, 2022
RIP gay camp filmmaker James Bidgood who has died at 88. His only movie, “Pink Narcissus,” took him 7 years to make, between 1963 and 1970, all shot in his tiny NYC apartment. He took his name off of it after a dispute w/ the editors, so it was attributed to “Anonymous” for years pic.twitter.com/ziOLhA6OMs
— Bruce LaBruce (@BruceLaBruce) February 1, 2022
Rest in peace James Bidgood, director of the landmark work of gay cinema PINK NARCISSUS ? pic.twitter.com/Gy5NlGGPtt
— Metrograph (@Metrograph) February 1, 2022
Muscleboy + The Young Physique covers by James Bidgood pic.twitter.com/m1rELDqsl9
— muted already (@_Noel_23) February 1, 2022