Catching the Moment with Paul Kolnik
For nearly 50 years the legendary dance photographer, Paul Kolnik, helped create the visual identity of the New York City Ballet.
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Seated on the floor before an overhead projector, Arabella Frahn-Starkie could be in her studio, working, sifting, collaging, thinking. In a darkened theatre, as befits the lumens of the projector, Frahn-Starkie slides image after image across the flatbed, and in doing so, she animates them and ensures they remain unfixed to any one moment or meaning. With her back to the audience, “Pictures and Ghosts” begins with an overriding sense of having crept into the artist’s studio to unassumingly watch her process. Music playing softly, to her right, so as not to obscure the hum of the projector, enhances this sensation of Frahn-Starkie being alone in the studio, ruminating. A lidded, expanding document holder to her left.
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