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Lisette Model, Shadows, 1940-41 Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1960s, 13 3/8 x 9 7/8 in., Courtesy Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York
Exhibition from April 28 to June 18, 2016 at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, Paris Fair Exhibitor
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Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to present Songs and the Sky, an exhibition of art and music.
Artworks by Lisette Model, Barbara Morgan, Aaron Siskind, Frederick Sommer, and Alfred Stieglitz will be paired with musical compositions by Ernest Bloch, John Cage, Arnold Schoenberg, Henry Cowell, and Christopher Washburne. Historically and conceptually relevant musical compositions were chosen to provoke, compliment, enhance, and challenge a reading of the visual artworks. Music served as literal or ideological inspiration for these artists, who sought to create images with the equivalent potential to communicate or translate abstract concepts directly…
Read more at parisphoto.com/agenda/songs-and-the-sky
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Barbara Morgan described the performance “Lamentation” by Martha Graham as a “dance of sorrow … the personification of grief itself.” Working to portray the melancholy essence of the dance and to capture its “visual peak,” Morgan produced a dramatically diagonal image of the American modern dance pioneer. Though Graham leans on a bench, her arms and legs extend expressively to stretch the dark fabric that envelops her—a material that, according to the dancer, “indicate[s] the tragedy that obsesses the body, the ability to stretch inside your own skin, to witness and test the perimeters and boundaries of grief.”
See this photograph on view in our newest installation “Elegy: Lament in the 20th Century.”
“Martha Graham - Lamentation,” 1935 (negative); c. 1981 (print), by Barbara Morgan © Barbara Morgan, the Barbara Morgan Archive
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Barbara Morgan (1900-1992), Graham - Celebration - (Trio-Dudley-Maslow-Flier) (1930s), gelatin silver print. Via Haggerty Museum.
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