Clickers & Flickers Photography Network: Leonard Nimoy: “SECRET SELVES”: an exploration of the concept of the lost or hidden or fantasy self

“SECRET SELVES”: AN EXPLORATION OF THE CONCEPT OF THE LOST OR HIDDEN OR FANTASY SELF
Presented By: LEONARD NIMOY * Date: March 22, 2011 (Tuesday) * Time: 6:30 - 10 p.m. * Location: The Castaway, 1250 Harvard Road, Burbank, CA 91501 MAP * Reservations: (626) 794-7447 (Required at least 5 days prior to the event)
Mr. Nimoy writes “At Plato’s Symposium around 400 B.C. Aristophanes posited a theory which could explain human angst. Humans, he suggested, were at one time double sided creatures having two heads, four arms and four legs. In this form they became powerful and arrogant, angering the Gods. Zeus was sent to solve the problem. This he did by cleaving everyone in two with a huge sword. Since then humans have been searching for the other, lost, part of themselves in order to feel complete again. As Aristophanes put it, “…human nature was originally one and we were whole…” When Leonard Nimoy’s first photographic monograph, SHEKHINA, was published in 2002, it not only sold out of its first printing in less than a month, but it created such a stir that the Jewish Telegraphic Agency wrote, "Nimoy is igniting an artistic debate...over art and censorship that echoes the battles that swirled over Mapplethorpe, and other artists like Andres Serrano and Chris Ofili, who created controversial religious imagery." In MAXIMUM BEAUTY-his June 2005 exhibition at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York City-Nimoy again stirred up debate; this time about our culture’s perception of beauty. While SHEKHINA explored feminine power using models of the “classic” body type, MAXIMUM BEAUTY examined female power of an altogether different variety-joyful images of large bodied women. In so doing, Nimoy’s extraordinary photographs revealed proud, self-confident ladies who were comfortable in their own skin and challenged society’s rigid definition of beauty. A collection of these images was published in book form and titled, “The Full Body Project”. Nimoy is represented by the Michelson Gallery in Northampton Ma, and Louis Stern Fine Arts in West Hollywood, CA. A selection of his images can be seen at www.leonardnimoyphotography.com.
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