About

“For two decades I used a conventional 35mm camera, and practiced traditional landscapes, portraits and travel shots in primarily black and white. I made a point of rejecting obvious opportunities to photograph dance, thinking the results were boring and unnecessary.
Then, going through some old books of dance photography—notably Alexey Brodovitch’s Ballet, and Paul Himmel’s 1954 Ballet in Action—I discovered that abandoning the crystalline image in favor of blurred edges and amorphous figures approximates the
excitement of dance in performances.
Ilse Bing’s mesmerizing images of CanCan dancers …