ethereal ballet

A talented photographer, from 1935 to 1937 Brodovitch captured several ballet companies on a 35mm camera with slow exposure. This resulted in blurred images and high-contrast, grainy negatives exhibiting burnt-out areas of flare from the stage lighting. This sharply violated the then accepted conventions of good photography. The images were published in the 1945 photobook Ballet. Only a few hundred copies were ever printed, and most of them were gifted to the artist’s friends.