Photographers such as Lois Greenfield and Barbara Morgan have been inspired by dance and dancers and have producd powerful images that capture the spirit and grace of the performance.
Click here to read an interview with Lois Greenfield and here to view a gallery of her images.
Click here to read a great article about the work of Barbara Morgan entitled "Faces of Modern Dance".
Click here to read an interview with Lois Greenfield and here to view a gallery of her images.
Click here to read a great article about the work of Barbara Morgan entitled "Faces of Modern Dance".
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Lois Greenfield“I’ve spent the last 25 years of my photographic career investigating movement and its expressive potential. My inspiration has always been photography’s ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see. My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine. What intrigues me is making images that confound and confuse the viewer, but that the viewer knows, or suspects, really happened. I want my images to defy logic, or as Salvador Dali wrote, I strive to “systematize confusion and discredit reality.” I can’t depict the moments before or after the camera’s click, but I invite the viewer’s consideration of that question.
The ostensible subject of my photographs may be motion, but the subtext is Time. A dancer’s movements illustrate the passage of time, giving it a substance, materiality, and space. In my photographs, time is stopped, a split second becomes an eternity, and an ephemeral moment is solid as sculpture. The seemingly impossible configurations of dancers in the air are all taken as single image, in-camera photographs. I never recombine or rearrange the dancers within my images. Their veracity as documents gives the images their mystery; and their surreality comes from the fact that our brains don’t register split seconds of movement." |
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