Lois Greenfield - Moving Still (Relié)

Biographie de William A. Ewing

Lois Greenfield began her career as a photojournalist. She became interested in photographing postmodern dance in the mid-1970s when on assignment for the Village Voice, a newspaper she continued to work for over the next twenty years. In 1982, she opened her first studio to work with dancers in a collaborative, controlled environment She has since had solo exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, New York ; Erarta Contemporary Art Museum in St Petersburg, Russia ; the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts ; the Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida ; and the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, among others.
Based in New York, Greenfield lectures widely about her work, and is currently an Artist in Residence at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Her photographs have appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers and advertising campaigns, and she has created signature images for countless dance companies. In 2015, she received the Dance in Focus award, presented by the Dance Films Association and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, in honour of her groundbreaking contributions to dance photography.
William A. Ewing has been an author, lecturer, curator of photography and museum director for more than forty years. His many books include monographs on such figures as George Hoyningen-Huene, Erwin Blumenfeld and Arnold Newman, and his thematic publications include The Body : Photoworks of the Human Form, Face : The New Photographic Portrait and Landmark : The Fields of Landscape Photography. He previously collaborated with Lois Greenfield on Breaking Bounds and Airborne, also published by Thames and Hudson.
He was director of the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, 1996-2010, and has curated exhibitions at numerous other institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Jeu de Paume, Paris, and the Hayward Gallery, London. He was made an Officer of France's Order of Arts and Letters in 2010.