3 January: Supreme

Date #3It is not hard to admire the idealising designs of Rudolf Koppitz, born on this day in 1884, but something sinister there lurks.

His most famous is Movement Study in which a willowy, naked Russian ballerina bends impossibly at full-stretch in front of a black background conformed to her silhouette by the languid embrace of a trio…

This article can now be found in full at All About Photo 

[NOTE: you will find the research I have done for this post to create the article Anna Koppitz on Wikipedia on 16 January 2022 : James McArdle]

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Published by jamesmmcardle

Artist and recovering academic enlightened by the metaphoric potential of focal effects and the differences between human and camera vision.

4 thoughts on “3 January: Supreme”

  1. Excellent and fascinating research James… I never knew the story (!!) and the question you pose at the end of the posting is apposite. Thank you 🙂

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  3. Pingback: April 27: Semblance – On This Date in Photography: by James Mcardle

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