Dancer #16, Pauline Koner, New York
(c. 1937); printed (1992)
Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Measurements
24.0 × 33.6 cm (image) 27.7 × 35.3 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2023
Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
Lotte Jacobi worked in Berlin as a portrait photographer and photojournalist in the 1930s. As Hitler rose to power, she renounced her German citizenship and moved to the United States, where she shot for the magazines Life and Time. Shortly after her arrival in New York, Jacobi captured this photograph of the dancer Pauline Koner. She is depicted in a state of dynamism – her billowing costume and whirling limbs seem to emanate lines of sweeping movement. The image was created through the combination of two negatives, one of the dancer and the other of an abstract image created through experimentation in the darkroom.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
New York, New York, United States
Accession Number
2023.15
Department
International Photography