[Couple Dancing]

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[Couple Dancing]

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German Photographer · 1887–1951

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Though Paul Wolff formally studied medicine and became a physician, the French government that controlled Strasbourg after World War I restricted him from practicing. As a result, he turned to photography, an interest that had begun in his teenage years. Wolff had published his first portfolio, which contained romantic views of his hometown, in 1914. After the war he first worked as a camera opera

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Date: 1940s
Medium: Ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Culture: German
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

The history of dance encompasses social and popular dance as well as modern and artistic dance. In the same way, the photography of dance is not purely limited to the carefully controlled arena of the photographer's studio. Here, rather than reconstructing a performance in a studio, Paul Wolff captured the spontaneous exuberance of dance as it happened at a lively party.

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