On The Dream Edge

Look up | Paris 

Vogue Australia June 2022

On Beale St.

Photo : Charles Dennington 

Styled by Catherine Martin

Hair : Alan White 

Makeup : Victoria Baron 

Barbara Morgan described the performance “Lamentation” by Martha Graham as a “dance of sorrow … the personification of grief itself.” Working to portray the melancholy essence of the dance and to capture its “visual peak,” Morgan produced a dramatically diagonal image of the American modern dance pioneer. Though Graham leans on a bench, her arms and legs extend expressively to stretch the dark fabric that envelops her—a material that, according to the dancer, “indicate[s] the tragedy that obsesses the body, the ability to stretch inside your own skin, to witness and test the perimeters and boundaries of grief.”

See this photograph on view in our newest installation “Elegy: Lament in the 20th Century.”

Marc Eemans (1907 - 1998) - Composition, 1927