Merce Cunningham / Annie Leibovitz
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.489
- Title
- Merce Cunningham
- Artist
- Annie Leibovitz
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1949
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1994
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gay Delanghe
- Style/Group/Movement
- 20th century American
- Dimensions
- 63.5 cm x 53.34 cm (25 in. x 21 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Physical Description
- Square black and white photograph showing head, neck and shoulders of a man posed against a blank wall. He is an older man with white curly hair. He is facing toward the viewer, but his eyes gaze to the left as if he is looking at something beyond. His hands rest on either side of his face and his expression is contemplative.
- Subject Matter
- This subject of this photograph by Annie Leibovitz, a famous portrait photographer of celebrities, is Merce Cunningham (1919-2009). He was an American dancer and choreographer who uniquely collaborated with artists of other disciplines,such as musicians, painters, designers and architects, and had a profound influence on modern dance. His choreographic innovations included the abandonment of musical forms, narrative, and other conventional elements of dance composition and he stated that he felt the subject of his dances was always the dance itself.
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3464 x 3712
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 2009/1.489
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-1.489/2009_1_489.jpg
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"Merce Cunningham; Annie Leibovitz." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-1.489/2009_1_489.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
