.Miss_Rosen reflects on the life of an artist who found solace and sanctuary in the world of make-believe
Bidgood lived as an openly gay man in New York at a time when homosexuality was still a crime. Whether working as a female impersonator, window dresser, fashion and costume designer, graphic designer, photographer, photo stylist, or filmmaker, Bidgood embraced glamour, fantasy and spectacle, crafting spellbinding technicolour tapestries of sensuality and desire.
In 1951, Bidgood, then 18, hopped a Greyhound bus from Madison, Wisconsin, to New York – a city he would call home for the next 70 years. “A lot of it comes from what Jim was looking at: female pin-up photography,” Clamp says. “There was so much more artistry that interested him: the lighting was great, the costumes were wonderful, and there were stories in the photography. He was frustrated and perplexed as to why that had never been done with male models, and wanted to bring that to his photography.
Inspired, Bidgood used a few fine fabrics he had saved from his couture projects and set to work on something properly befitting the bas monde.
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