LAS VEGAS, NV—The Erotic Heritage Museum has named photographer A. A. Navarro II as its Fall 2018 Featured Artist. Navarro’s latest exhibition, “The Camera’s Eye: The Sensual images of A. A. Navarro II,” is being displayed in the EHM’s Lobby Library through the end of November; it will be this collection’s inaugural gallery showing.
“I was immediately drawn to the artist’s use of shadow and light,” said EHM Executive Director Dr. Victoria Hartmann. “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. His work encapsulates the phenomenon of intimacy and its many complexities.”
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. “The Camera’s Eye” is an anthology of Navarro’s 16 years as a Las Vegas photographer.
“My mission is to create photographs which cause the viewer to experience my photos in the following five ways,” explained Navarro:
- Emotionally: "They should be appealing to or arousing your emotions";
- Intimately: "They should evoke a very warm and friendly feeling; like there";
- Provokingly: "They should feel charged, edgy, exciting, piquing, provocative, stimulating";
- "Revolutionary: They should bring about a major or fundamental change to photography";
- "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," Navarro continued. "I’m both honored and flattered! 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.”
Navarro Art and Image is a minority- and veteran-owned domestic sole proprietorship operating in Las Vegas, providing a variety of photographic services throughout southern Nevada, including the Las Vegas arts and entertainment industries and communities. For more information, click here.
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