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Dancers Among Us
Jordan Matter
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Description for Dancers Among Us
Paperback. Presents photographs of dancers leaping, spinning, lifting, kicking - but in the midst of daily life: on the beach, at a construction site, in a library, a restaurant, a park. Organized around themes of work, play, love, exploration, dreaming, and more, this book celebrates life in a way that's fresh, surprising, original, universal. Num Pages: 240 pages, four colour photographs throughout. BIC Classification: AJC; ASD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 232 x 17. Weight in Grams: 702.
The mystery of the body in motion. The surprise of seeing what seems impossible. And the pure, joyful optimism of it all. Dancers Among Us presents one thrilling photograph after another of dancers leaping, spinning, lifting, kicking - but in the midst of daily life: on the beach, at a construction site, in a library, a restaurant, a park. With each image the reader feels buoyed up, eager to see the next bit of magic. Photographer Jordan Matter started his Dancers Among Us Project by asking a member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company to dance for him in a place where dance is unexpected. So, dressed in a commuter's suit and tie, the dancer flew across a Times Square subway platform. And in that image Matter found what he'd been searching for: a way to express the feeling of being fully alive in the moment, unself-conscious, present. Organized around themes of work, play, love, exploration, dreaming, and more, Dancers Among Us celebrates life in a way that's fresh, surprising, original, universal. There's no photo-shopping here, no trampolines, no gimmicks, no tricks. Just a photographer, his vision, and the serendipity of what happens when the shutter clicks.
Product Details
Publisher
Workman
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
747g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780761171706
SKU
V9780761171706
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99-1
About Jordan Matter
Jordan Matter, a portrait and dance photographer, is the author of the New York Times bestseller Dancers Among Us. He is a viral phenomenon with over two million followers on social media. His YouTube series, 10 Minute Photo Challenge , has been viewed over 100 million times. In Jordan Matter's photos, dancers make all the world their stage, wrote The New York Times. He has presented his work to a wide variety of organizations, including ESPN, the National Arts Club, the School of Visual Arts, Adorama Camera, B&H Photo, and Middlesex College. Matter was an Arts Envoy through the State Department on a speaking tour of South Korea sponsored by the U.S. Embassy. He and his work have been featured in ABC World News, Nightline, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Today, the BBC, The New York Times, Huffington Post, Daily Mail, UK, O, the Oprah Magazine, NPR, and New York Magazine, and in newspapers, magazines and exhibitions all over the world. He lives in New York.
Reviews for Dancers Among Us
Honest and spontaneous, his pictures are sure to resonate with dancers and non-dancers alike.
Dance magazine
Alan Cumming It's a rare book that contains anything of interest on the copyright page, but this caught my eye: 'No trampolines or other devices were used in the taking of the photographs in this book, and the dancers' poses have not been digitally enhanced or altered.' It's not hard to see why the author felt that such a disclaimer was necessary; the photographs in this book are unbelievable.
Smithsonian magazine
Redbook The pictures in Dancers Among Us of pro hoofers getting their jet on in public is a call to find the joy in everyday life
and to give in to that urge to boogie no matter where or when it hits you.
Redbook
Dance magazine In his shots of dancers in flight on sidewalks and city streets
excitable superheroes among us
Matter has produced a series of mini-musicals, frozen in time but full of energy.
The Washington Post
Smithsonian magazine Bodies of breathtaking grace and agility transform ordinary spaces, seemingly defying gravity as they pli and pirouette through busy streets, a record shop, along a heliport tarmac, and under the Santa Monica boardwalk.
O, The Oprah Magazine
The Washington Post Eye-popping fun. -The Chicago Sun-Times
Dance magazine
Alan Cumming It's a rare book that contains anything of interest on the copyright page, but this caught my eye: 'No trampolines or other devices were used in the taking of the photographs in this book, and the dancers' poses have not been digitally enhanced or altered.' It's not hard to see why the author felt that such a disclaimer was necessary; the photographs in this book are unbelievable.
Smithsonian magazine
Redbook The pictures in Dancers Among Us of pro hoofers getting their jet on in public is a call to find the joy in everyday life
and to give in to that urge to boogie no matter where or when it hits you.
Redbook
Dance magazine In his shots of dancers in flight on sidewalks and city streets
excitable superheroes among us
Matter has produced a series of mini-musicals, frozen in time but full of energy.
The Washington Post
Smithsonian magazine Bodies of breathtaking grace and agility transform ordinary spaces, seemingly defying gravity as they pli and pirouette through busy streets, a record shop, along a heliport tarmac, and under the Santa Monica boardwalk.
O, The Oprah Magazine
The Washington Post Eye-popping fun. -The Chicago Sun-Times