From Aperture:

Between 1960 and 1970, a fantasy world bloomed inside James Bidgood’s minuscule midtown apartment. With his camera, a few models, and a series of vibrant shoestring sets, Bidgood created countless photographs and a movie, “Pink Narcissus” (1971), that fused campy artifice with unbridled eroticism – and in the process, helped elevate the status of gay image-making to the level of art. “Dreamlands,” on view at CLAMP gallery through August 29, features several of the late artist’s private pre-Stonewall reveries, in which queer desire could be expressed without fear or shame.

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