AIRBORNE NEW DANCE PHOTOGRAPHY (THE)

Breaking Bounds brought Lois Greenfield's pioneering work in dance photography wide spread acclaim and a dedicated following. Now with Airborne, her first book in over six years, Greenfield takes us to spectacular new heights. Collaborating with some of the world's finest dancers from such illustrious dance companies as the Martha Graham Dance Company, Pilobolus, San Francisco Ballet, the Parsons Dance Company, and Ballet Tech, she captures moments of startling grace and power. In 90 duotone images, Greenfield's dancers defy gravity and push the limits of the possible. A preface takes us behind the scenes in her studio, and the photographer's own captions illuminate the challenges of making pictures that recreate the seeming effortlessness of dance. As inspiring as it is technically remarkable, this collection of incomparable images is sure to captivate dance lovers, photographers, and all who admire the beauty and strength of the human body.

"Lois Greenfield has been too busy making spectacular studio action photographs of dancers to be represented by only one collection, her best selling 'Breaking Bounds.' It was only a matter of time before her publisher, Chronicle Books, issued 'Airborne: The New Dance Photography of Lois Greenfield.' As usual, the pages are filled with dancers her trusty Hasselblad had caught breathtakingly in midpose and midair, but now more ingenious use is made of props, materials, or objects. (In one shot, Sham Moser is under a shower of flour and sugar.) IN this 1997 study of a cube and Ashley Roland (in a mesh unitard), Greenfield wanted to 'make it seem as though an invisible force had blown' them apart. Looks as though she succeeded." -- Dance

"We've all seen photos of dancers caught in midleap. But there's only one photographer who captures the dazzling freedom of trained bodies tumbling, darting or falling through space to form stylized silhouettes. 'Airborne: The New Dance Photography of Lois Greenfield' offers a generous sampler of these black-and-white images, best known from advertisements for a brand of expensive watches. Brief essays by the director and curator of the Musee de l'Elysee in Switzerland, explain how Greenfield fits into the history of photography and the photographer adds brief commentaries about her work with the dancers." -- LA Times --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.