From Paul Courbin’s article for Les Inrockuptibles:
Esthete James Bidgood, direct influence of Pierre & Gilles and David La Chapelle, died on January 31 at the age of 88.
The cult artist of the queer and underground community of the 1970s is dead: James Bidgood influenced a mass of artists of the 20th and 19th centuries, with his colorful and transgressive look at male bodies and homosexual desire.