Amongst other endeavors photographer Paul Himmel liked taking beautiful, moving photographs of the ballet. The way he captures the dancers' movements is just astounding. It's almost like each photograph is a painting of something more distance and abstract, though in reality it's the beautiful moments of very real dancers captured. The grainy quality adds to this abstraction, I think. It almost blurs out any truly defining lines, like the dancers and their movements are about to dissolve or burst into the rest of the space in the photographs. Every movement, and dancer and object and shade blends into each other in the most natural way.
1. Ballet Serenade, 1951/52
2. The Cage A, ca. 1950
3. Swan Lake D, 1951/52
4. Ballet Serenade, 1951/52
5. The Cage E, ca. 1950
6. Ballet Swan Lake, 1951/52
7. Orpheus B, ca. 1950
8. Illuminations A, 1953
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