Lois Greenfield

Bridget Brown’s Artist ProjectMs. Tang’s 8th Grade English

Vital Statistics

Birth Year: 1949

Death Year: None

Gender: Female

Nationality: American

Personal Background

• Went to Brandeis University in Waltham Massachusetts

• During freshman year of college in 1996, worked for college newspaper as photographer

• Had no prior interest in dance, knew nothing about it

• Once she started photographing, she researched other dance photographers to get inspiration

• Barbra Morgan- who photographed many Martha Gram company dancers

Historical Events

• Lack of knowledge in dance required a lot of research• Discovered Max Walaman and Barbara Morgan• Admired Max Walaman for his form, use, and techniques

with the camera• Modeled after Barbara Morgan for position and movement

of dancers, along with costume and prop usage• Improvement of technology=improvement of Greenfield’s

photography• When cameras were becoming more digital, didn’t requite

film and had many more features-sped up photography process

• Made more successful

Brownie Camera(first camera Greenfield ever used)

Max Walaman

Barbara Morgan

Lois Greenfield

Barbara Morgan

Influence of the Art World

• By expanding abilities from journalism and news to dancing and other movement, she inspired many others

• Reached outside her comfort zone, and inspired others to do the same

• Also able to inform society about nature, beauty and elegance of dance

Stylistic Traits

#1-Beauty, effortlessness, elegance#2-Strength and power#3-Movement, time, motion#4-Extension and grace

Lenore Pavlakos

Extension, beauty, effortlessness- the extension of her legs and arms, the angle of her body, and the beauty of the costume. Makes movements look effortless

Strength, power- power required to create big movements

Movement, time, motion- the motion of the costumes, hair, leg position and body position. Demonstrates element of time.

Elegance and grace- position of dancer, costume’s connection with dancer’s pose.

Extension, beauty, effortlessness- precision of each body part

Strength, power- power of turn and jump. Demonstrated through facial expressions and costumes or hair.

Movement, time,Motion- demonstrated

through position of hair, and where the dancer is in comparison to the ground. Suspended in the air

Grace, elegance-elegant and gracefulmovements, yet stillcontain the strengthand power to maintainjump.

Odara Jaeali-Nash

Extension, beauty,effortlessness- dancer’s gracefuland natural beauty that is oftenfound on ballerinas.Strength, power-Required to make jumps andkeep position looking goodMovement, time,Motion- each dancer isn’t in a

posethat they could hold for a while, itrequires little time to stay in thatspecific pose. Grace, elegance- again, mainlyfound naturally in ballerinas, theelegance of their movements

reallystand out compared to otherdancers.

New York City Ballet

My Original Artwork

Picture 1and • Motion and movement

Picture 2• Elegance and beauty

Picture 3• Femininity and poise

Conclusion

-Challenges-Motion, movement, time-Props (scarves, dresses etc.)

-Strengths and weaknesses

-Photograph quality- not as clear and professional as Greenfield’s

- captured accurate facial expressions

-What have you learned?-requires a lot of concentration, patience, proper

equipment etc.-outcome pays off

Thanks for Listening.Questions?