LAS VEGAS — The Erotic Heritage Museum has announced A.A. Navarro II as its featured artist for Fall 2018.
A.A. Navarro II is a published, international fine art photographer, well-versed in boudoir, erotic, fashion, fine art, glamour, and lingerie photography. As a photographer, he believes in diversity; his subjects have no set body type, height requirements, piercing or tattoo restrictions, or ethnicity preferences. Navarro shoots beauty in all its forms and sees beauty in all its forms.
Navarro’s latest exhibition, “The Camera’s Eye: The Sensual images of A.A. Navarro II,” is an anthology of Navarro’s 16 years as a Las Vegas photographer and will be displayed in the EHM’s Lobby Library, now through the end of November and will be this collection’s inaugural gallery showing.
“I was immediately drawn to the artist’s use of shadow and light,” EHM Executive Director Dr. Victoria Hartmann said. “Standing in the gallery with Navarro’s pieces takes the viewer to a secret place: a private invitation to the interior of the scene playing itself out on the canvas.”
“His use of glass as the foundation of the art adds an extra element of ethereal lightness to an otherwise intimate moment,” Hartmann adds. “His work encapsulates the phenomenon of intimacy and its many complexities.”
Navarro says his mission is to create photographs which cause the viewer to experience his photos in the following four ways: Emotionally, they should be appealing to or arousing your emotions; intimately, they should evoke a very warm and friendly feeling; provokingly, they should feel charged, edgy, exciting, piquing, provocative, stimulating; revolutionary, they should bring about a major or fundamental change to photography; and sensually, they should produce physical and/or sexual pleasure when viewing.
“It’s an honor to be offered a gallery showing of no less than 50 pieces of my photography work at the EHM. I’m both honored and flattered,” Navarro exclaims. “In keeping with the venue’s mission, the overall purpose of these images is to bridge the gap between that which is commercial and often misidentified as pornographic, with that which is aesthetic, often identified as fine art.”
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