| Description |
For documentary photographers, the spectacle of the dance offers a myriad of opportunities. As courtship ritual, as celebration, as physical embrace, as a mysterious and fraught moment between strangers, it presents photographers with a tantalising mixture of sexuality, grace and vulnerability - fantastic and intimate scenarios presented in a public place. Visually compelling as it is, the ballroom, whether formal or in some improvised public space, has also been used by photographers to make important points about the world in which we live. |