LOIS GREENFIELD

New York based photographer, Lois Greenfield is internationally recognized for her highly personal approach to depicting motion using the medium of dancers’ bodies. Her unique style has radically redefined the genre and influenced a generation of photographers. For the last 45 years years she has been photographing the improbable, fleeting moments of dancers in motion. What fuels her passion is exploring the emotional and narrative nuances suggested by the human form in flight. She has been compared with Eadweard Muybridge for his exploration of human locomotion, and with Cartier-Bresson for capturing the elusive moment. Deliberating avoiding choreographed motion, Lois explores the non-repeatable, improvised movements that become uniquely photographic events. Their veracity as documents gives the images their mystery: human perception cannot register these extremely thin slices of time. In Greenfield’s photographs, time is stopped, a split second becomes an eternity, and an ephemeral moment is solid as sculpture.

A dancer’s movements illustrate the passage of time, giving it a substance, materiality, and space. These moments exist as isolated instants that represent dreams of our constantly shifting selves. Lois has created signature images for most of the major contemporary dance companies and commercial clients around the world.

Her work is collected around the world and has been featured at Galerie NuEdge since 2017.