In the 1930s Lotte Jacobi had photographed many well-known figures of modern dance in Berlin such as Claire Bauroff, Vera Skoronel and Harald Kreutzberg. She was particularily interested in the dynamics and abstraction of expressive dance. The image offered here, taken in her New York studio circa 1940, reflects Jacobi's fascination in the combination of the dancing figure of the American dancer Pauline Koner with one of her abstract photogenics to emphasize the flowing movement of modern dance.
Lit.: Marion Beckers/ Elisabeth Moortgat. Atelier Lotte Jacobi. Berlin, New York. Berlin 1997, ill. p. 190.
