Morgan Barbara Intro Peter Bunnell (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dustjacket. First Edition. Barbara Morgan (July 8, 1900 - August 17, 1992) was an American photographer best known for her depictions of modern dancers. She was a co-founder of the photography magazine Aperture. Morgan is known in the visual art and dance worlds for her penetrating studies of American modern dancers Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Erick Hawkins, Jose Limn, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman and others. Morgan's drawings, prints, watercolors and paintings were exhibited widely in California in the 1920s, and in New York and Philadelphia in the 1930s. Many of the dancers Morgan photographed are now regarded as the pioneers of modern dance, and her photographs the definitive images of their art. These included Valerie Bettis, Merce Cunningham, Jane Dudley, Erick Hawkins, Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey, Jose Limn, Sophie Maslow, May O'Donnell, Pearl Primus, Anna Sokolow, Helen Tamiris, and Charles Weidman. Critics Clive Barnes, John Martin, Elizabeth McCausland, and Beaumont Newhall have all noted the importance of Morgan's work.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed monograph on the work of American photographer Barbara Morgan, including examples of her notable photographers for the Martha Graham Company and other modern dancers, along with examples of her more abstract and experimental work. NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1972. First edition. 159pp; b&w plates. 4to. Maroon vinyl stamped in gilt to front board and spine. Light foxing to textblock top. Very good or better in a like jacket with a tape-repaired closed tear at head of spine, light foxing to interior. Signed by Morgan to half-title. Signed by Author(s).