Barbara Morgan :: Puritan Love Duet portrays dancer and choreographer Martha Graham performing a piece from her 1938 composition, “An American Document,” with Erick Hawkins. Morgan captures this split-second image of the the dancers in motion in 1939. | src Museum of Women in the Arts

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Desperate Heart, 1944

Barbara Morgan :: Dancer Valerie Bettis in Desperate Heart, 1944 (printed ca. 1982). | src akron art museum

The dancer Valerie Bettis in Desperate Heart, 1944 (printed ca. 1982) by Barbara Morgan. This image of modern dancer and choreographer Valerie Bettis performing her signature work approaches abstraction. Her body is almost completely obscured by the cascading fabric of her skirt. | akron art museum

We are three million women, 1938

Barbara Morgan (1900-1992) :: We are three women / We are three million women, 1938 | source Münchner Stadtmuseum via Lensculture: Who’s Afraid of Women Photographers? exhibition
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