I’m definitely a photography fan, and my own attempts at it have certainly helped me appreciate what an art it is (and that a $$$ camera does not make a “good photographer”).
I found this pop up in my facebook news-feed and it had some rather lovely photos.
While photographing the “Wardrobe” series, Dikeman decided she would also like to focus on the ballroom dancing costumes. “Shooting the ballroom dresses on the racks didn’t make sense,” she said. “I liked the skirts when they were billowing and flowing under the stage lighting of the competition floor.”
Although at first she was worried about showing the dancers’ faces and kept her focus on the movement of the costumes, a curator proposed to her the idea of broadening the work and concentrating on the bodies as well. “I thought, ‘Why not?’ ” she said. “I had put a constraint on the project that didn’t need to be there … so I moved up from the skirt level to the torsos, and then I saw the visual power of the hands touching the bodies, and I got excited about those images.”
