Details
STUDIO OF BESS N. MENSENDIECK (1864–1957)
The Mensendieck System of Functional Exercises, 1918
twelve albumen prints, mounted on card
each stamped with copyright credit (recto)
each image/sheet: 61⁄4 x 4 in. (15.8 x 10.1 cm.)
overall: 143⁄4 x 38 in. (37.4 x 96.5 cm.)
Literature
W.M. Hunt, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, Aperture, New York, 2011, p. 82-83.
Exhibited
Rochester, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, October 1, 2011–February 19, 2012.
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Lot Essay

'This ‘posture’ series of a veiled female nudes passing through eccentric, soundless dance poses – a frieze of Martha Graham-like moves – was published as an accordion-style book that unfolds with an image on each page. Its peculiar beauty belies its ‘how to’ origins; it is a graceful, incomprehensible semaphore.' – W.M. Hunt

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