Ready for his close-up.Legendary photographer Jack Mitchell's first Dance Magazine cover was in April 1956: a sweaty close-up of Jose Limon in The Lament of Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. Since then, 167 of his photographs have graced our covers. Mitchell's glamorous portraits and sculptural dance shots reveal intimate details that make the icons he shoots both immediately accessible and larger than life larg·er than life adj. Very impressive or imposing: "This is a person of surpassing integrity; a man of the utmost sincerity; somewhat larger than life" Joyce Carol Oates. . In his New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of studio, he photographed numerous celebrities, including Andy Warhol Noun 1. Andy Warhol - United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987) Warhol , John Lennon, Merce Cunningham, Rudolph Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Twyla Tharp. The Delaware Art Museum Founded in 1912, the Delaware Art Museum holds a world-renowned collection of more than 12,000 works focusing on American art and illustration from the 19th to the 21st century as well as the English Pre-Raphaelite movement of the mid-19th century. is presenting an exhibition of Mitchell's work, "Icons & Idols: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Arts, 1960-1995," from Aug. 5-Oct. 1. See www.delart.org. The museum will also screen Jack Mitchell: My Life Is Black and White, Craig Highberger's excellent movie about Mitchell's life and work. See www.jackmitchellmovie.com. |
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