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Jack Smith (November 14, 1932 – September 18, 1989) was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer. [1] Life and career.
Director: Flaming Creatures. Jack Smith was born on 14 November 1932 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Flaming Creatures (1963), The Illiac Passion (1967) and Normal Love (1963). He died on 25 September 1989 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
Jack Smith (November 14, 1932 – September 18, 1989) was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer.
Jack Smith was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer, though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown.
Jack Smith (November 14, 1932 – September 18, 1989) was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art , and has been critically recognized as a master photographer, though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown.
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May 27, 2022 · As Jack Smith (born in 1932), visionary filmmaker, photographer and avant-garde performance artist lay dying in 1989 of an HIV/AIDS related illness at New York’s Beth Israel Hospital, he was still as irascible as ever.
Few artists can be said to have had a greater influence on the history of experimental cinema, queer cinema, and performance art than Jack Smith (1932–1989). Smith was an antic performer who played to the cheap seats, flamboyantly and tragicomically overwrought in the manner of Theda Bara, Maria Montez, Gloria Swanson, and Dorothy Lamour.
Oct 29, 1997 · Jack Smith captured the attention of the international avant—garde in 1963 with the presentation of his first major film, Flaming Creatures. Demonized by charges of obscenity, Smith’s film became a political tool of conservative politicians and campus radicals throughout the 1960s.
Jack Smith was one of the most accomplished and influential underground artists in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, a key figure in the cultural history of Downtown film, performance, and art. From the late 1950s until his death from A.I.D.S. in 1989, Smith was chiefly recognized for his work in film and performance.
Jack Smith (1932 – 1989) was an American actor, photographer and filmmaker and one of the most important figures in the early days of performance art, experimental and queer cinema. Working in New York in the 1960s, Smith was one of, if not the first, proponents of kitsch, camp and trash aesthetics.
