FRINGE REVIEW: The Big Nude Pinhole Shoot

Last night, a klatch of Philadelphia models, professional and novice, signed up anonymously to have their naked selves photographed by Mr. Friedman.

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FRINGE REVIEW: The Big Nude Pinhole Shoot

POSTED: Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 2:00 PM

Every year, there's hundreds and hundreds of performances at the Philly Fringe and Live Arts Festival, and unless it's one of the big shows, it's sometimes hard to tell what you're going to get. Here at Critical Mass we're sending writers to as many shows as we possibly can for 75 pocket-sized reviews over the course of the fest. Check back in with us at On The Fringe every day for real talk on what these things actually are!

SHOW: The Big Nude Pinhole Shoot

GROUP: RA Friedman/Tsirkus Fotografika

GENRE: Photography

ATTENDED: Tue., Sept. 11, 9 p.m. at Ven and Vaida Gallery

CLOSES: Mon., Sept. 17 at The Rotunda

BRIEF SELF-DESCRIPTION: Meet the artist and sign up to bare it all, make some amazing art, and get a free archival print as artist RA Friedman uses primitive photographic tools to fashion a dazzling tableau. Tsirkus Fotografika, (Tsirkus.org) or the "Photographic Circus," was founded in 2008 by artist RA Friedman and is an ongoing non-profit, public arts project based in Philadelphia, PA, designed to bring the creative process directly to communities and document populations at their most lively. Since 2010, Tsirkus has been working toward doing multi-figure nude public shoots using pinhole photography. The 2012 Fringe event is the first.

WE THINK: If you didn’t sign up to be snapped by Friedman — Philadelphia’s premier photographer dedicated to ages-old techniques, film stock and experimentalism — you can’t act voyeuristically at his nude Sept. 17 shoot where all but a pinhole of light will shine through the darkness of the Rotunda. That doesn’t mean you’ll miss out completely. Last night, a klatch of Philadelphia models, professional and novice, signed up anonymously to have their naked selves photographed by Mr. Friedman. Once there, they got a glimpse of Friedman’s rotogravure-like techniques as applied to other naked models, wedding participants and cabaret/burlesque performers. Those photographs will stay on the walls of the Ven and Vaida throughout September.

—A.D. Amorosi

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