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Clem witnessed his peers and therapist die and made the decision to survive. I loved Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. Inhe packed everything to move back home to Texas. I realised some of them were very charismatic and magnetic in front of the camera.

Gay Cowboys and Rural : I got high af the other night with my stereotypically redneck cousin and it was the most positive coming out experience of my life

He became my first model. He had headphones on and it felt like his body was moving to the rhythm of whatever he was listening, like [John] Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.

Drugs, however, demanded a hefty portion of their creative sensibilities, and many eventually succumbed to its addiction. Shane Wenzel will answer your questions on his Q&A Gay Redneck Series. I set some music and had them perform little acts. I was taking pictures of things that were loaded in political ways.

Clem — who first started with photographing abandoned houses around Paris — turned his lens to a community often labelled as rednecks partially by chance and somewhat by curiosity. Below, in his own words, Chivas Clem tells the story behind Shirttail Kin.

I made a video work in called Mommy, Daddy, Me which showed my mother and I, nude from the waist, kissing on a field while my father filmed us. A highly respected member of the NASCAR. I had to get this guy into my studio.

Clem captures most models in his six-bedroom Victorian-style house in the sleepy town of Paris by the Oklahoma border. They were never helpful — I could not get them to do anything — but they did start sitting for me.

I got high af :

They ended up coming to just sit around, smoke cigarettes, and take a bath. As a frequent shopper at his store, I was eventually introduced to a few who came over to help me out at the studio. This was a recreation of my Oedipus complex with my dad as the photographer.

This piece got me into the Whitney Independent Study program the same year and eventually, the Pompidou acquired it. He had a coterie of beautiful young rednecks that would hang out at his shop on hot days and drink his soda.

I later made similar short films that had to do with psychoanalysis and the body, such as Desperate to Appear Sophisticated which showed me vomiting glitter into the camera in slow motion. Gordon was in a romantic relationship with openly-gay driver Stephen Rhodes: As if the sports world didn't' have enough people coming out of the closet.

Chivas Clem’s Disarming Portraits of ‘Beautiful Young Rednecks’ Art & Photography In Their Words Chivas Clem, Chris Smoking Outside, Courtesy of the artist and Dallas Contemporary. I found the original image from the police department and re-photographed the detail in When I moved to Texas, I began collecting pictures of rednecks with the intention of showing them as posters.

In them, a bunch of early twenty-somethings, mostly nude, drift with what life brings — they linger, bathe, clutch bouquets, eat a piece of food, and soak in the sun. It was the early s when Chivas Clem saw it all.

He came to Texas with the plan of returning to New York once he was clean.