The Performance of Pictorialist Dance Photography
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The Performance of Pictorialist Dance Photography. / Vedel, Karen.
In: Nordic Theatre Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2017, p. 138-161.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Performance of Pictorialist Dance Photography
AU - Vedel, Karen
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Looking to the widely disseminated pictorialist photos of Waldemar Eide (Nor-way) and Henry B. Goodwin (Sweden) featuring the Russian ballerina Vera Fokina and the Swedish ballerina Jenny Hasselquist, the article is an enquiry into the role of the dancer in the pictorialist studio and the contribution of picto-rialist photography to the turning point when the aesthetics of dance was being reconsidered, the dancing body reconfigured, and photography emerged into an art form in its own right. Taking inspiration from the socio-material approach of photography historian Elizabeth Edwards, the analysis downplays the ques-tion of content in favor of a focus on the material practices in the photographic studio at the level of the photographer as well as the dancer-model posing before the camera. Placed within a discourse of new materialism, performance and performativity, it moreover considers the resulting photos as material ob-jects that perform in continuing processes of meaning production. An example of the latter discussed at the end of the text is Harald Giersing’s abstract paint-ing ’The Dancer’ based on a photo of Jenny Hasselquist as The Dying Swan.
AB - Looking to the widely disseminated pictorialist photos of Waldemar Eide (Nor-way) and Henry B. Goodwin (Sweden) featuring the Russian ballerina Vera Fokina and the Swedish ballerina Jenny Hasselquist, the article is an enquiry into the role of the dancer in the pictorialist studio and the contribution of picto-rialist photography to the turning point when the aesthetics of dance was being reconsidered, the dancing body reconfigured, and photography emerged into an art form in its own right. Taking inspiration from the socio-material approach of photography historian Elizabeth Edwards, the analysis downplays the ques-tion of content in favor of a focus on the material practices in the photographic studio at the level of the photographer as well as the dancer-model posing before the camera. Placed within a discourse of new materialism, performance and performativity, it moreover considers the resulting photos as material ob-jects that perform in continuing processes of meaning production. An example of the latter discussed at the end of the text is Harald Giersing’s abstract paint-ing ’The Dancer’ based on a photo of Jenny Hasselquist as The Dying Swan.
KW - Dance pictorialism
KW - modern ballet
KW - material practices
KW - Vera Fokina
KW - Jenny Hasselquist
KW - Mikhail Fokine
KW - Waldemar Eide
KW - Henry B. Goodwin
KW - Harald Giersing
U2 - 10.7146/nts.v29i1.103314
DO - 10.7146/nts.v29i1.103314
M3 - Journal article
VL - 29
SP - 138
EP - 161
JO - Nordic Theatre Studies
JF - Nordic Theatre Studies
SN - 0904-6380
IS - 1
ER -
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