Dave Naz
Born in Los Angeles in 1969, Dave Naz grew up at the intersection of Beverly Hills glamour and Hollywood grime. Chas Ray Krider describes Dave Naz as "a true southern California artist." He continues:
His sexy imagery is casual without pretense. When one
looks beyond the surface, the work is seen as much more:
a cultural artifact giving clues to the sexual identities and
persona of our time.
In 1987, his teenage years not yet behind him, Naz left high school and Southern California to make music and play along side such bands as Nirvana, the Ramones, Mudhoney, L7, and others, packing clubs from the Ratskeller to the Marquee. In 1995, with no formal training, Naz picked up a camera and started photographing people.
"School's never been the way for me. A lot of my favorite
writers—Bukowski, Fante, Jim Carroll—they didn't write
from school. They wrote from the street. Capturing
emotion in less than a second's time is unlike any other
form of documentation."
Since 1998, Naz's photographs have appeared in more than thirty shows in galleries worldwide. His work has been featured in Black + White, FHM, GQ, Leg World, Maxim, Nerve, Salon, Stern.de, and other prominent venues. He is already the author of four well-received books with Goliath Press: Lust Circus (2002), Panties (2003), Legs (2004), and Fresh: Girls of Seduction (2006). Though self-taught, his work has been praised by cultural artists as diverse as Lydia Lunch, Richard Kern, Gregory Dark, and Nina Hartley.
Dave Naz lives in the Hollywood Hills, high above Southern California.
website: www.davenaz.com
25 April 2007