Nimoy Talks New Photography Exhibit

This weekend an exhibit of Leonard Nimoy’s “Full Body Project” begins at a gallery in Los Angeles. Mr. Nimoy gave an interview to the local CBS affiliate where he talks about the show and his photography. You can see the interview at CBS2.com. Part 2 of the interview (where Mr. Nimoy will talk about the new Star Trek movie) airs tomorrow on CBS 2 in LA during the 5 PM news. Nimoy will appear at a gallery reception on Saturday. (More info below)


Tune in tomorrow for more Nimoy Interviews
CBS reporter Dave Malkoff write’s on his blog:

On Friday 01/04/2008 at 5:00PM on CBS2 News, Leonard Nimoy talks about Star Trek and takes us into the past with rare clips from one of his first acting roles here in Los Angeles. He also gives us a tiny bit of detail about his latest project, Star Trek XI, the big-budget motion picture now in production.

TrekMovie.com has learned that Nimoy will reveal at least one new spoiler from the new movie, so make sure you check it out. For those outside of LA, TrekMovie.com will have links to video up early Friday evening.

Late Late Show
Mr. Nimoy will also appear Friday Night on the CBS Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman and Late Late Show both cut deals with the WGA to return to the airwaves this week, with their writers. So Mr. Nimoy will not be crossing a picket line.

Details on Nimoy’s new exhibit
Press release for Nimoy’s Exhibit and show starting this weekend

Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present The Full Body Project Photographs by Leonard Nimoy.

The exhibition opens on Saturday, January 5th with a reception and book launch for the artist from 6-9 pm and continues through Saturday, March 1, 2008.

Photographer Leonard Nimoy has had a long-term relationship with the articulation of beauty. Since his early immersion in the language of photography (he studied with UCLA’s famed Robert Heineken), Nimoy has created an extensive and provocative portfolio featuring the female nude. Using this traditional subject, Nimoy has explored the spiritual (the Shekhina Project), the sculptural (the Borghese Series – inspired by Canova’s “Paulina”) and the voluptuous (the Classic Nudes series). The classic elements of light and shadow, line and silhouette, visual rhythms moving in and out of focus, in concert with the photographer’s will, define these works.

With The Full Body Project, Nimoy has surrendered his masterful control in order to discover a beauty known only, at least initially, to his models. These women are not interested in shadow. They are interested in joyous even rapturous display. Nimoy’s photographs dare us to respond to these flirtatious Rubenesque muses before our current cultural obsession with thinness rushes our eyes to judgment. Nimoy’s open-minded and wide-eyed photographic embrace of what he truly sees, alive and in the flesh before him, liberates our perception of what is beautiful in the female form. In The Full Body Project, it seems Nimoy and his models have placed their collective skills in service to Gandhi’s maxim “Show them the truth and they will see beauty afterwards.”

Copies of Leonard Nimoy’s book, The Full Body Project (Five Ties Publishing, 2007) with a foreward by Natalie Angier and an afterword by Anne Wilkes Tucker, will be available for purchase and signing.

Louis Stern Fine Arts
9002 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90069


Photo from Leonard Nimoy’s “Full Body Project”

More info on the event at at the Louis Stern Site

More on the “Full Body Project” and other Nimoy photography projects at Leonard Nimoy’s site

UPDATE: Barnes and Noble Nimoy Video
Barnes and Noble have a new “Author Interview” with Nimoy

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Um, first. Okee. Now I have that out of the way!

Oh silver! And you had so much promise. That will have to be your mulligan.

Polls are now open on who will be the first doofus to make a dumb comment about the full-figured ladies. It’s too bad that an exhibit such as this is considered daring. I say good on all involved.

Does Nimoy have a separate website for this project?

I agree THX. Heaven help the first simpleton that can’t acknowledge the beauty in all life.

#2:”Polls are now open on who will be the first doofus to make a dumb comment about the full-figured ladies.”

Okay, how about their couturer?

I was present for a photography lecture (with a bit of Trek added in) that Nimoy gave a few years ago. He’s truly one of the nicest people you can ever meet!

Could it be……that Nimoy is going….to reveal the ultimate spoiler…..and that would be…….(drum roll)………….a cameo appearance in the movie by……………..MUGATU??!!

Takes my breath away just thinking about it……………. :)

Something that has always impressed me about Leonard Nimoy is his integrity, humanitarianism, and life long commitment to help the underprivileged. The reason he made this book was to help these women, who commonly suffer discrimination because of their size, feel beautiful. He knew he was going to be the subject of much criticism for it, but he always does what he feels is the right thing to do. Very brave.

#7 Harry S. Ballz

Maybe Mugatu will pose…

As a fellow photographer I admire his efforts and talent, though his subjects in this case are not exactly my… dish of tea.
(666th!)

Fat bottom girls, they make the rockin world go round. Get on your bikes and ride!

cool

Have you ever noticed, in life, how often skinny men are attracted to big women?

@14 IDIC

Nimoy’s a class act; here’s hoping his book and his exhibit do well!

Anthony,
Cool interview. Thanks for bringing us these snippets. Great, as always!

#13 Harry

To each his own, I ‘spoze.

Peace. Live long and prosper.
The Vulcanista }:-|

#13 That’s why I try to never get too skinny. Never know how the ol’ appetite might change. Pass the donuts!! But don’t give my date any!!

Vulcanista….I agree completely!

As John Lennon said, “whatever gets you through the night…” :)

#3 Capes:

Here ya go:

http://tinyurl.com/d399v

Peace. Live long and prosper.
The Vulcanista }:-|

I noticed in the very interesting piece that the nudes were blurred. That is so silly….. They have to blur Leonard’s photos and yet later in prime time the networks show some pretty hardcore stuff. For television anyway…

#19 The Vulcanista…..You Rock! Thank you!

Awesome Mr. Nimoy!:) Thanks Anthony for bringing it to us.

#3 http://www.leonardnimoyphotography.com

Kigs :)

#5-“Okay, how about their couturer?”

I believe that more women should wear less.

Or were you talking about the MMA guy? He should never be photographed in the nude.

#22 Thanks Kigs!

#2 THX totally agree. as usual..
^
Ballz, I’ve heard rumors the Mugatu is in the background and it maybe a younger fursion maybe in a zoo type setting. I could totally see a Mugatu handler
throwing screaming tribbles into the cage for mugato chum…

#2 THX totally agree. as usual..
^
Ballz, I’ve heard rumors the Mugatu is in the background and it maybe a younger fursion maybe in a zoo type setting.

I could totally see a Mugatu handler
throwing screaming tribbles into the cage for mugato chum…

Also I believe its called “fat boy slim” complex…
Mr Ballz
^
Also #8 JBS made a great comment on Nimoys work. I respect him as well JBS but his photography isn’t my style…but I hope he reaches alot of folk that like his creative work.

I wished I lived in LA so I can go to things like this or see Tim Burton at the cinemadome. Actually, I don’t have to wish because I’m trying to move out there this year. Anybody know of any good jobs???

“fat boy slim” sounds like the name of a rapper……if it isn’t, it SHOULD be!! :)

..Wow, Nimoy loves the fatties.

28. Harry Ballz, Fatboy Slim is in fact the name of a British musician/DJ who specializes in dance and electronic music.

#30 Thomas

Thanks for the heads up…..did this musician write the tune “I Like Big Butts”?

If not, he should have………………

Zinged ya Ballz…
Hee hee
:)

What a rude little curmudgeon you are… :)

Just had an interesting thought- How will they play a possible Spock-meets-younger-Academy-Spock scene? It’s interesting because if young Spock retains any memory of the meeting, he must be thinking “WTF?” as he’s dying in the glass chamber at the end of STII.

That is so sick!

Bizarre! If it wasn’t for the person taking the snaps this wouldn’t get any interest at all.
Still, I’m sure that will be enough for some people.

Hey, this is all good, but where is the discussion on this weekend’s Star Trek: Remastered episode?

13. Good point Harry, now I’ve figured out ol’ Lenny.

Yes, agree with those who say that Nimoy is a really great guy. I haven’t seen him in person or met him personally, but am impressed none the less. When I first started getting into behinds the scenes, and cast interviews about the movies and stuff, I thaugt Nimoy was a rotten guy, but I have been proved wrong.

Highly illogical, Captain.

Either you like Nimoy’s photos or you don’t – but he is actually giving us a redefinition and reimagination of established beauty canon.

Mr. Nimoy’s passion and talent for photography is evident in his work. I agree with him when he says that the term beauty shouldn’t be limited to certain ideals and I applaud him for pursuing his passion.

However, I’m still waiting for the Orion Slave Girl Project. ;)

#2 THX

I hope there is still promise for me yet!

By the time I check this site, any new article already has several dozen comments on it. Honestly, I always though the whole ‘First!’ bit was kinda lame, especially if you don’t contribute anything productive to what you are commenting on. But, alas, I check this board and for the first time, a new article with no comments, lol. I couldn’t resist. But, as I said… Now, I have that out of the way. Meaning, out of my system. So, no more lame Firsting from me! Now I’m back to good ol’ business!

As of last night, http://www.barnesandnoble.com also has a video on their front page talking about his book.

#41 no he isn’t- he’s TRYING to. Good luck with that Lenny.

#36 – ZoomZoom – you could be right, but as a photographer myself, I’m always interested in seeing other people’s work. The fact that it’s someone I’ve been a fan of all my life, and this is the first time I’ve had the chance to see any of it just makes it even more interesting for me.

His Borghese project is interesting, I must say. There’s a little synopsis that accompanies it that says that the person who made the original sculpture which inspired Nimoy’s project was ashamed of it because it depicted “royalty” posing semi-nude, which was a scandal at the time (and almost certainly would be now), and so when Nimoy photographs the semi-nude, it’s done with either so much contrast that the details can hardly be seen, or it’s fully lit up, but covered with cloth so as only to suggest there’s a person underneath. It’s an interesting take on the situation.

Other than that, his work doesn’t really interest me much. It’s kind of been done before (including the full-body series, although I do appreciate what he’s trying to do there). Apart from his self-portraits. He is such a recognisable person that it’s just interesting to see him in such a setting, and he’s got such a great, textured face that it really lends itself to that kind of intimate portraiture. Incidentally, one of the times we can clearly see one of the Borghese poses is in the background (and slightly out of the focal plane) of one of his self-portraits.

A better quality website would be nice! Some of the images are a little unclear, just from bad web production.

And I used the word “interesting” way too many times just there.

I love Leonard’s photo of his parents and how he remarked that it
captured their personalities!

Hmmm… although this will probably be taken as callous, this latest exhibit seems more like a sideshow than art.

crickey, lookit the size of them dames…

nothing promotes an unhealthy lifestyle like glamorizing the overweight under the guise of challenging the concept of beauty.

the beauty of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, lack of exercise and self discipline…

put down the donuts and pick up some free weights, ladies. that goes for the guys, too.