Les Demi Dieux revisited

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Watching the Kenneth Anger DVDs last week (which really are superb, by the way, and should be on the Christmas shopping lists of anyone interested in underground cinema) had me hunting around for more of the kind of period imagery one sees in his Scorpio Rising (1964) and Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965), imagery that’s erotic if seen with the correct eye (a gay one, naturally). The photos produced by Les Demi Dieux, a New York photographer of the Fifties and Sixties, correspond very much to the atmosphere in Anger’s films, not least because of the location, Scorpio Rising being filmed among the biker groups of Coney Island. I linked to a Flickr page showing some of these photos in March and since then this page has surfaced which sheds a bit more light on the still elusive history of these pictures.

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Les Demi Dieux at Big Kugels

Previously on { feuilleton }
Relighting the Magick Lantern
Les Demi Dieux
James Bidgood
Kenneth Anger on DVD…finally

2 thoughts on “Les Demi Dieux revisited”

  1. You and me and The Other Andrew since he had a pic from this series in one of his recent vintage men posts.

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