BALLET - PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE NEW YORK CITY BALLET

Introduction by Peter Martins Book design by Ruba Abu-Nimah, Eleanor Rogers & Kevin Ley (Water NYC) 488 pages / 22x30cm / 270 photographs / Clothbound hardcover Published by Steidl November 2012 ISBN 978-3-86930-544-8 Limited Copies Available Signed     In the winter of 2012, I was granted unprecedented access to the New York City Ballet by Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins. With the very same Leica that I used during my seminal years photographing the Béjart Ballet Lausanne, I ventured backstage and through the rehearsal studios, capturing moments ranging from the impossibly sublime to the beautifully mundane.   Most often, I was transfixed by the dancers in their solitary, unguarded moments. Hands meticulously breaking in pointe shoes, a dancer resting on the floor, the brief moment of stillness before the curtain rose —for me, these were the pictures that spoke eloquently of the beauty that I saw within the dancers of the Company.   The photographs in this book are an ode