French expatriate Verner Degray settled in Tahiti after falling in love with the island about ten years ago. However, instead of curvaceous women, carved gods or cutouts of palm fronds, Degray's photography has focused on the objects of his desire: handsome, athletic Tahitian men.
Degray had this to say about his photography: “I'm like a painter with a brush. I'm not a reporter, I'm a photographer. I will not take 8,000 photos to finally produce only two good ones.” But there will be plenty of ‘good ones,’ nude male figure photos, on display in the Verner Degray Exhibit opening at Las Vegas’ Erotic Heritage Museum, September 10.
With the Degray exhibition, the Erotic Heritage Museum (also known as the Harry Mohney Erotic Museum) furthers its mission to preserve and display erotic artifacts, fine art and film. Housing more than 24,000 square feet of permanent and featured exhibits exploring the “erotic imagination as depicted through the artistic expression of acts of sex and love,” the EHM is unlike any other museum in the world performing educational, scientific and literary functions relating to sexual, emotional, mental and physical health.
Along with the 34 piece Degray exhibit, which will be housed in the Gay Erotica Gallery of the two-story museum right off the Vegas ‘strip,’ one can also see The World’s Largest Erotic Bicycle, Jay Losofsky Sculptures, “The Revolutionaries of Sex” and a very sexy Star Wars exhibits (including the landspeeder built by industry pros Kylie Ireland and Andy Appleton), plus many other one-of-a-kind items and human sexuality studies. The museum’s second floor is mainly devoted to erotic art-paintings, sketches, watercolors, porcelain figurines, sculptures, and carved wood objects, some of which are available for sale.
Degray’s provocative photographic study of beautiful naked male figures certainly finds a welcoming two-month home at the Erotic Heritage Museum. The Verner Degray Photography Exhibition opens at the Erotic Heritage Museum with an opening night celebration on September 10 and runs through November 10. For more information call 702-794-4000 or click here.
