Passion & Line: Photographs of Dancers - Hardcover

Schatz, Howard; Ornstein, Beverly J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1888001372 ISBN 13: 9781888001372

Publisher: Graphis Inc, 1997

Synopsis

It isn't enough to say that Howard Schatz admires dancers. He adores them. Schatz' pictures are not about dance; they are photographs of dancers as phenomenal objects: graceful and powerful; explosive or ecstatic in motion, elegant and elemental while at rest. There is more to dance than bodies, but without bodies there is no dance. And however much natural beauty a dancer may have, years of training and a daily regimen that might break an Olympic rower, produce human forms that are nothing less than masterpieces of kinetic sculpture.
In Passion & Lies, Schatz interprets these hard-won creations through his art, combining exploration and adoration in equal measure.

About this title

From Library Journal:

This is not a souvenir book with pretty pictures of swans in tutus and princes in tights; rather, it is a virtual gallery of kinetic sculpture. Members of our leading dance companies, including the San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Paul Taylor Dance Company, and others worked with the photographer to capture the very essence of the art of dance. Schatz, whose previous titles range from Water Dance (Graphis, 1995) to Homeless: Portraits of Americans in Hard Times (Chronicle, 1993), explains that the "images in this book are not dance photographs; they are photographs of dancers who performed for an exact moment?for the camera alone.... We collaborated to create the `performances' that resulted in the photographs." An exquisite collection of stunning images well suited for photography, dance, and performing arts collections.?Carolyn M. Mulac, Chicago P.L.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Graphis Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1888001372
• ISBN 13: 9781888001372
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 218