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Scene Magazine's Best of Cleveland 2011:
People & Places
Best Photographer
Herb Ascherman
If modern gadgets have made everyone a photographer, they have also accentuated the artistry of Cleveland's Herbert Ascherman Jr. A black-and-white portraiture specialist whose career has spanned four decades, Ascherman favors platinum printing, the 140-year-old process by which a negative of the image is placed on platinum-coated paper and exposed to ultraviolet light. You don't find that at the Walgreens photo lab, and talents like Ascherman are equally rare.
April 1st. 2011
"...the most productive portrait photographer in...Ohio." Steven Litt, Art Critic, Cleveland Plain Dealer . February 2009
I work with an 8 x 10 view camera, black and white film, and print in hand made platinum, a process patented in 1873.
My work has been shown in museums and galleries in London, Paris, India, Tokyo and throughout the US.
"I am not an intellectual, I just take pictures".
Helmut Newton
John Winger: I have a plan!
Russell Ziskey: Great. Custer had a plan too.
The Duchess of Windsor herself is reported to have summed up her life in a sentence: "You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance."
I have published 5 books of portraiture, street photography and nudes. I have had over 50 one man exhibitions, most recently at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction in Bloomington, Indiana, who also hold my archive of over 1200 prints.
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