Please join Herb Ascherman at the Corcoran Fine Arts Gallery, Shaker Square at 7 p.m. on Friday, January 25th, 2008 for an informal gallery talk about his exhibit Bodies: 1967-2007. The work represents 40 years of Black and White and Platinum photographs that explore human form and sexuality. Admission is limited to those 18 years of age and older.
The photographs include this quotation from Alfred Hitchcock: "I have a feeling that inside you somewhere there's somebody nobody knows about."
What: "Bodies: 1967-2007 -- Photographs by Herbert Ascherman.
When: Through Friday, Feb. 15. (Gallery Talk January 25th, 2008, 7 p.m.)
Where: 13210 Shaker Square, Cleveland.
Admission: Free.
Info: Call 216-767-0770 or go to www.CorcoranFineArts.com.
About Herb Ascherman:
Herbert Ascherman Jr. has been creating fine art portraiture for over 30 years, specializing in stunning black and white and the resurgent art of platinum photography.
Internationally recognized for his photographs of people in creative, commercial, and social settings, Herb’s work has been exhibited and commercially published throughout the US and in Europe, Japan and India.
Plain Dealer art critic Steven Litt had this to say about the exhibit:Cleveland photographer Herbert Ascherman Jr. is not one to turn down a dare. In a review of a 2006 exhibition in which he displayed borderline risque photographs, I wrote that he should "give free rein to his inner Robert Mapplethorpe."
Mapplethorpe was the gifted photographer whose notorious "X Portfolio" portraying gay sadomasochism helped launch the culture wars against public funding of the arts in the late 1980s.
Little did I know that the phenomenally productive Ascherman was more than ready to meet my challenge. It turns out while making a career locally as a busy portrait photographer he has been photographing nudes and various kinds of sexual encounters, gay and straight, since the late 1960s.
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