6.1.10. Dance Photography
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This article is from the Ballet and Modern Dance FAQ, by Tom Parsons twp@panix.com with numerous contributions by others.
6.1.10. Dance Photography
(These titles contributed by Jim Williams. The quoted comments are his.)
Brodovitch, Alexey. "Ballet: 104 Photographs by Alexey Brodovitch, text
by Edwin Denby". New York: J. J. Augustin, 1945, pre-ISBN. Extremely
rare collection of his photographs of Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo
from the 1930s.
Crickmay, Anthony. "Dancers". Introduction by Andrew Porter. New York:
W. Morrow, 1982, ISBN 0-688-01239-6. "Crickmay, a British photographer,
concentrates on studying dancers where they work, practice and perform,
but his uncanny eye for composition and feeling for light raise his
work far beyond the level of routine reportage."
Edwards, Harvey. "The Art of Dance". Foreword by Bruce Marks. Boston:
Little, Brown, c1989, ISBN 0-8212-1734-8. This is the Edwards who did
the poster of the girl in the torn legwarmers.
Ewing, William A. "Dance and Photography" (U. S. title); "The Fugitive
Gesture" (British title). New York : H. Holt, c1987, ISBN 0-8050-0591-
9. A history of the field, "the only serious scholarly work I've seen
on the subject."
Ewing, William A. "Breaking Bounds: the dance photography of Lois
Greenfield". London : Thames & Hudson, c1992, ISBN 0-8118-0232-9.
"An extremely gifted and insightful artist...has an amazing ability to
"translate" the psychological elements of dance into two-dimensional
compositions."
Money, Keith. "Fonteyn and Nureyev: The Great Years". London : Harvill ;
New York : Harper Collins [dist.], 1994, ISBN 0-00-271375-6. "A
wonderful `extended essay'...backstage views of these two brilliant,
highly-contrasting personalities working together to create their art."
Morgan, Barbara. "Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs". Dobbs
Ferry, N.Y.: Morgan & Morgan, c1980, ISBN 0-87100-176-4. Photographs
of the company in its formative years.
Petitjean, Pierre. "Backstage". (Trans. by Richard and Jeanette Seaver.)
New York : Viking Press, 1979, ISBN not known.
Severn, Merlyn. "Ballet in Action". With an introductory essay and
critical notes by Arnold L. Haskell. London: J. Lane, 1947, pre-ISBN.
"The first person to make a serious, ongoing effort to photograph
dancers *in performance* as a way of better understanding their art."
Waldman, Max. "Waldman on Dance". Foreword by Lucille Tortora; special
dedication by Gelsey Kirkland with Greg Lawrence. San Francisco:
Chronicle Books, 1992, ISBN not known. "A very stylized view."
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