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ASPECTS OF THE TRUE SELF

Berghash, with his unique approach, captures your innermost thoughts and feelings about yourself and the significant people and events of your life. It is a true collaboration between subject and artist. The finished multi-image work is bound in a leather … Continue reading

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RELATIONSHIP PORTRAITS

Here, you and someone close to you choose a pose which best characterize your feelings towards each other. After arriving at an image you and Berghash agree upon, he superimpose a grid, photographs each segment separately, then reassembles the images … Continue reading

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IN & OUT OF FOCUS

You, with family, friends, or significant others, pose in a way that allows your faces to meld together, symbolizing the degree of closeness in the relationship. These portraits can consist of two to as many as four 20″ x 24″ … Continue reading

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TWIN SELVES

We are all complex beings. In this series, Berghash invites you to befriend your other self. It may be the self you show to the world, meeting the one you keep hidden, or perhaps the you who delights in the … Continue reading

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I’S CLOSED
I’S OPEN

Head/shoulder diptychs, each accompanied by a haiku-like poem. An exploration of your inner-self looking out and looking in. Berghash and his wife Rachel, a poet, translate your thoughts and feelings into the poem. These Diptychs matted and framed are 22” … Continue reading

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LEGACY / REFLECTIONS

These full-length “painterly” black and white portraits could have been photographed in the early 20th century. Past subjects have been accomplished artists and writers. Now you too are invited to own your portrait, a work of art, printed in a … Continue reading

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JEWS AND GERMANS

JEWS AND GERMANS – ASPECTS OF THE TRUE SELF (Portraits of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & their German Counterparts, 1981-85) These amazing portraits, of Jewish Holocaust survivors and their German counterparts, were prompted by a number of factors. First, a number of … Continue reading

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PORTRAITS OF THE ROOTED & UPROOTED

PORTRAITS OF THE ROOTED & UPROOTED (Beyond the visual spell of circumstance, Photographs and Interviews, 1988-1989) “Portraits” is a photographic essay, which explores how material and familial security are reflected by the individual. The essay includes two kinds of subjects. … Continue reading

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GALUT

Begun in 1994, this series depicts Jewish women and men from all aspects of the Jewish community throughout the US. They proved to be a diverse and complex group.  When exhibited, the black and white portraits, unadorned mug shots, each … Continue reading

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ALTER EGO PORTRAITS

A painter as well as a photographer, Berghash painted images on the heads and torsos of his subjects to create altered beings. The images were what Berghash imagined the subject would have liked to be, sometimes whimsical, sometimes disturbing. They … Continue reading

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PHOTEMS
In collaboration with Rima & Valeriy Gerlovin

“Photems”, (a term coined by Rima Gerlovina, Mark Berghash and Valeriy Gerlovin, three conceptual artists), are photographs of their faces and bodies that have been painted with words, equations and symbols. Eight 20” x 24” Polaroid prints, 1988, signed by the artists, are … Continue reading

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In collaboration with Rima & Valeriy Gerlovin

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