![]() ![]() He also published two other books: Nudes (1970) and More Nudes (1971), featuring discreet and artistic arrangements of his subjects. ![]() In the collection Duncan features celebrities in various poses with white costumes and complementary red shoes, boots, sandals, sneakers, toe shoes or ballet slippers. In 1984 he published a collection of photographs entitled Red Shoes, a collection that was inspired by the motion picture The Wizard of Oz. He also photographed the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and was invited to Cuba to photograph their 8th International Dance Festival. Among the foreign companies are: the Australian Ballet, Maurice Bejart's Ballet of the 20th Century, Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Netherlands Dance Theatre, and the Royal Ballet. The American companies include: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet West, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Joffrey Ballet, New York City Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Pilobolus, San Francisco Ballet, Murray Louis Dance Company and the Alwin Nikolais, Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp companies. He also photographed nearly every principal dance company in the world. Duncan's subjects included Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova, Rudolf Nureyev, Cynthia Gregory, Fernando Bujones, Judith Jamison, Gelsey Kirkland, Alicia Alonso and numerous company dancers. Over the course of his career he photographed the top dancers in the world during the mid to late twentieth century, recording their virtuosity in a way that revealed great sensitivity on his part. While he photographed a wide range of performers and personalities including, among others, Maxwell Caulfield, Dick Cavett, Eartha Kitt, Angela Lansbury, Marcel Marceau and Bette Midler, it was through his work in photographing dancers and dance companies that he first gained recognition. He became an assistant to a fashion photographer and learned how to use a camera, eventually taking over the studio in the late 1960s, moving into dance photography.ĭuncan sought to capture the sense of movement in his photography while revealing, according to one critic, an "outer beauty and inner essence" of his subjects with a technique that garnered him international acclaim. Sometime in the 1960s, however, he injured his leg badly enough that he had to abandon his career as a dancer. Duncan achieved the highest honors in the sport, but eventually he abandoned skating for a career as a dancer, which gained him much recognition. His initial interest in movement came about through his study of ballet which he undertook in order to perfect his form as a roller-skating champion. Duncan came by both photography and dancing in an indirect way. Considered by many to be one of the foremost dance photographers of the late twentieth century, Kenneth Duncan, Jr. ![]()
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