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We asked Amy Arbus to tell us about a picture that means something to her, and why. The circus performers, acrobats, and dancers in Arbus’s latest photographs perform remarkable feats of flexibility, strength, and daring.
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Often set against a deep black background, as if they’re floating in space, her subjects soar through the air, balance in formations, hold each other aloft, and twist their toned bodies into astonishing shapes and poses. Arbus’s interest in photographing trapeze artists, contortionists, hoop divers, and burlesque dancers was sparked when a friend took her to a circus at a state fair in 2023, and she kept going, photographing performers with the Fly By Night Dance Theater, the Hook, and Circus Vazquez, among other companies.
A selection of these photographs is on view at The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA, through July 16. On August 24, work from the series goes on view at Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts in Brattleboro, VT, until October 6.
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