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Morgan, Barbara (1900-1992) Martha Graham's Celebration.
1934.
Gelatin silver print, titled, dated, and twice signed by Morgan, mounted, with cropping annotations noting the image's placement in Morgan's first book, Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs (1941) on blank mount margin; 12 ½ x 8 3/8 in.
Barbara Morgan, a New York-based photographer and painter, is perhaps best known for her dynamic black-and-white photographs capturing dancers and their performances in the 1930s. She was also, along with Ansel Adams, Beaumont Newhall, Dorothea Lange, and others, a co-founder of Aperture magazine in 1951, which sought to acknowledge photography as a valid medium for artistic expression. Morgan's first book (see above) documented American dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (1894-1991) who invented modern dance.
