Barbara Morgan

American
(1900–1992)

Martha Graham- Letter to the World
1940

Gelatin silver print
26.5 x 30.375 x 0.75 in.
Gift of the artist
1984.1686

Morgan’s most popular body of work are her photographs of dancers. After attending a performance of the Martha Graham Dance Company in 1935, Morgan became fascinated by the power of dance to communicate social and political problems. She then began an extensive series of photographing dancers that was exhibited across the United States. Though she stopped working with dancers in later years, Morgan’s photography always focused on communicating social and environmental issues.

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This object has the following keywords:

• dance
• dress
• Graham, Martha - Sources:
  - Modern dance, 1935.
  - NUCMC data from U. of Washington Lib. for Goode, E.V. Papers, 1938-1942
  - WWA, 1986-87
  - De Mille, A. Martha, c1991:
  - Xue de ji yi, 1993:
• shadow
• white
• woman

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction , 8/25/2020 - 7/9/2022