James Bidgood
USA
James Alan Bidgood (1933-2022) was an American filmmaker, photographer, costume designer, set designer, and visual and performance artist, known for his highly stylized and homoerotic works. Active in the 1950s, his photographs depict young men stripped naked in fantasy scenes between dream and mythology, often in a homoerotic atmosphere. His work has inspired photographers such as Pierre et Gilles, whose style is very similar, and also David LaChapelle. He wrote, directed, and produced "Pink Narcissus", a film shot on Super8 between 1963 and 1970 in a small apartment in New York's Hell's Kitchen district, which was initially released anonymously. He died in New York in extreme poverty.