© Lois Greenfield
Interpretation
Lois Greenfield is an American photographer best known for her work with the human figure in motion. She began her career as a photojournalist but quickly was drawn to the graphic potential of dance, about which she wrote for The Village Voice from 1973 to the mid-1990s. While the focus of the photographs appears to be motion, the artist has noted that the subtext is time: “time is stopped, a split second becomes an eternity.” Greenfield’s work with dancers was typically improvisational rather than rehearsed, capturing moments that were often high risk and could not be repeated.
Information
- Title
- Dancers (David Parsons Dance Company)
- Object Number
- 2018-251
- Maker
- Lois Greenfield
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dates
- 1982
- Dimensions
- 39.7 × 38.7 cm (15 5/8 × 15 1/4 in.)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Duane E. Wilder, Class of 1951
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