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IRIS Nights Lecture Series - Leonard Nimoy

Thursday, September 15, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (PT)

Los Angeles, United States

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Type Remaining End     Quantity
General Admission -
On Sale Wed 9/7 at 12PM
Sold Out Ended Free  
General Admission -
On Sale Thurs 9/8 at 9:30AM
Sold Out Ended Free  

Event Details

After Wednesday's tickets sell out online, there will not be any other tickets available until Thursday, September 8th's batch opens online at 9:30am PT.

Leonard Nimoy studied photography at UCLA under Robert Heineken in the early 1970s and produced a body of work that was published in two volumes of poetry. In 2001, his artist in residence appointment at the American Academy in Rome resulted in a series of provocative images inspired by the Antonio Canova sculpture of Countess Paulina Bonaparte Borghese, whose semi-nude posture created such a royal scandal in the 1800’s that the Count had it locked away.

Nimoy’s first photographic monograph, “Shekhina,” published in 2002, explored feminine power using models of the “classic” body type. In “Maximum Beauty,” his June 2005 exhibition in New York City, focused on our culture’s perception of beauty. “Maximum Beauty” examined female power of an altogether different variety - joyful images of large bodied women.  These 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.”

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