{"id":178,"date":"2008-03-21T11:25:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T18:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/03\/baryshnikov-behind-the-camera\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T11:25:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T18:25:36","slug":"baryshnikov-behind-the-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/21\/baryshnikov-behind-the-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Baryshnikov Behind the Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>snipped from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/unbeige\/photo\/baryshnikov_behind_the_camera_80374.asp\" target=\"_blank\">MediaBistro.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/unbeige\/original\/Mikhail%20Baryshnikov.jpg\" alt=\"Mikhail Baryshnikov.jpg\" height=\"213\" width=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Surely one of the best parts of <em>Sex and the City<\/em> was dancer <strong>Mikhail Baryshnikov<\/strong>&#8216;s graceful turn as one <strong>Aleksandr Petrovsky<\/strong>, a brooding global art star whose living space had us convinced that he was an architect in disguise. Meanwhile, Baryshnikov hasn&#8217;t stopped multi-tasking. Tuesday saw the opening of an exhibition of his photographs of the <strong>Merce Cunningham<\/strong> Dance Company at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.401projects.com\/index.php?mode=gallery&amp;section_id=171\" target=\"_blank\">401 Projects<\/a>, the cozy New York gallery owned by photographer <strong>Mark Seliger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Baryshnikov has been taking pictures&#8211;landscapes, portraits, travel shots&#8211;for 20 years, but this is the first time that he&#8217;s turned his camera on the world of dance, something he knows a little something about. &#8220;I made a point of rejecting obvious opportunities to photograph dance, thinking the results were boring and unnecessary,&#8221; he says. An epiphany came as he paged through old books of dance photography, particularly <strong>Alexey Brodovitch<\/strong>&#8216;s 1945 <em>Ballet<\/em> and <strong>Paul Himmel<\/strong>&#8216;s 1954 <em>Ballet in Action<\/em>. &#8220;I discovered that abandoning the crystalline image in favor of blurred edges approximates the excitement of dance in performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Newly inspired, he swapped his 35mm for a digital camera and set out to photograph social dancing in the Dominican Republic and then moved on to shoot the work of Cunningham, &#8220;as an homage to one of the greatest choreographers of our time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/unbeige\/photo\/baryshnikov_behind_the_camera_80374.asp\" target=\"_blank\">click to view full article at MediaBistro.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>snipped from MediaBistro.com Surely one of the best parts of Sex and the City was dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov&#8216;s graceful turn as one Aleksandr Petrovsky, a brooding global art star whose living space had us convinced that he was an architect in disguise. Meanwhile, Baryshnikov hasn&#8217;t stopped multi-tasking. Tuesday saw the opening of an exhibition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}