{"id":5420,"date":"2009-06-18T02:35:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T01:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=5420"},"modified":"2013-02-11T00:44:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T00:44:57","slug":"the-recurrent-pose-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/06\/18\/the-recurrent-pose-27\/","title":{"rendered":"The recurrent pose 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.out.com\/exclusives.asp?id=24440\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5421\" title=\"bidgood.jpg\" alt=\"bidgood.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bidgood.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Moss Roberts photographed by James Bidgood.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I missed this back in January, a great version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/02\/16\/evolution-of-an-icon\/\" target=\"_self\">Flandrin pose<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightlightsfilm.com\/52\/bidgoodiv.htm\" target=\"_blank\">James Bidgood<\/a>, the justly-celebrated beefcake photographer and director of that micro-budget masterwork of gay erotica, <em>Pink Narcissus<\/em> (1971). The photo was part of a feature commissioned by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.out.com\/exclusives.asp?id=24440\" target=\"_blank\">Out.com<\/a> which asked notable photographers to present a contemporary take on the <em>Physique Pictorial<\/em> style. Bidgood&#8217;s pictures strike me as the best of the bunch but then I&#8217;m biased, having recently bought Taschen&#8217;s republication of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/3836514524?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=ateliercoulth-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=3836514524\" target=\"_blank\">splendid book of Bidgood photos<\/a> from the 1960s. Luscious and kitsch, and\u2014if you&#8217;re a fan of Bobby Kendall\u2014highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/v-m-p.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/james-bidgood-returns-in-new-issue-of.html\" target=\"_blank\">VMP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-recurrent-pose-archive\/\" target=\"_self\">The recurrent pose archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/06\/lets-get-physical-bruce-of-los-angeles-and-tom-of-finland\/\" target=\"_self\">Let\u2019s get physical: Bruce of Los Angeles and Tom of Finland<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/05\/08\/the-male-gaze\/\" target=\"_self\">The Male Gaze<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/02\/01\/james-bidgood\/\" target=\"_self\">James Bidgood<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moss Roberts photographed by James Bidgood. I missed this back in January, a great version of the Flandrin pose by James Bidgood, the justly-celebrated beefcake photographer and director of that micro-budget masterwork of gay erotica, Pink Narcissus (1971). The photo was part of a feature commissioned by Out.com which asked notable photographers to present a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/06\/18\/the-recurrent-pose-27\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The recurrent pose 27&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,5,12],"tags":[64,490,489,225,2194],"class_list":["post-5420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eye-candy","category-gay","category-photography","tag-beefcake","tag-bobby-kendall","tag-james-bidgood","tag-narcissus","tag-tom-of-finland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1pq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}