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Martha Graham - "Lamentation"
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Barbara MorganAmerican Photographer · 1900–1992
All works by this person →>We didn't have very much money, so [my husband] set up our darkroom in the bathroom. Every time I went to the bathroom, I learned about photography, because there would be [his] negatives hanging and dangling, and prints washing in trays...I never studied photography, I absorbed it. Barbara Morgan grew up in California and studied painting at the University of California at Los Angeles. Upon grad
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- 1935
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- Gelatin silver print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Barbara Morgan's decision to transfer her creative energies from canvas to darkroom coincided with her first exposure to the avant-garde artistry of American dancer and choreographer Martha Graham. Graham described "Lamentation," first performed in 1930, as "a solo piece in which I wear a long tube of material to indicate the tragedy that obsesses the body, the ability to stretch inside your own skin, to witness and test the perimeters and boundaries of grief, which is honorable and universal."
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