After The Moment | My Photograph at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati

After The Moment | My Photograph at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati

Twenty-five years ago, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati exhibited Robert Mapplethorpe’s “The Perfect Moment” and was immediately met with controversy. Nine of the first people through the door were a grand jury who looked at the 175 images and deemed seven of them to not only be offensive but criminal because of their explicit sexual content. The grand…