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04. Photobooks
Dance travels from stage to street, rehearsals to nightlife. We begin with the music-hall elegance of Yvan Dalain, the iconic spreads of Brodovitch’s Ballet, and the intimate explorations of Kazuo Ohno and Eikoh Hosoe. Estelle Hanania’s It´s Alive! à travers de l´oeuvre de Gisèle Vienne published by Shelter Books in 2019 opens the field further, encompassing performances, theatre, teenagehood, free parties, and disco clubs. From there, the selection moves through Chelbin, Choquer, Doury, Konttinen, Miksys, Spencer, Shibuya, Petersen & Oitto, and finally the exuberance of Les Cockettes 1971. Together, these photobooks trace a constellation of dance: formal, social, theatrical, intimate, and vividly alive.






Estelle Hanania is a french photographer.
She is the founder of the publishing house Myriorama.



J´aime Le Music-Hall (Editions Rencontre) 1962Yvan Dalain
The “J'aime” series (mainly introducing art and culture) is a photo collection tailored with a compact, yet stylish book design with a compact appearance. The theme of this book is “Music Hall”. Musical performance scenes, artist's practice scenes and dynamic demonstration scenes during the performance, continuous photos where you can enjoy performances and changes in facial expressions, fascinating audience's facial expressions, and a variety of fragmented photos inside and outside the hall where you can feel the taste. A unique book composed of various photos surrounding the hall.
 (https://made-in-wonder.com/)


Ballet (Little Steidl) 2025
Alexey Brodovitch
Brodovitch’s aim was to capture dance in the spontaneous, living present. Free of all artistic preconceptions and working with a sense of existential imperative, he immersed himself over a span of five years in the final performances of the Ballets Russes on tour in America. (https://littlesteidl.de/)



Hidden Body: The World of Kazuo Ohno (CREO) 2006Supervised by Yoshito Ohno
Kazuo Ohno loved to be taken photographs. Once, in the rehearsal, he was so content and excited to dance thanks to the very existences of photographers taking him just below the stage. Next day of the performance, though, he was disappointed that it turned out that there were no photographers. This book includes Kazuo Ohno’s photos taken by 42 photographers, such as Eikoh Hosoe, Naoya Ikegami and Nobuyoshi Araki. (http://www.kazuoohnodancestudio.com/)



The Butterfly Dream (Seigensha) 2006
Eikoh Hosoe
The eye of Eikoh Hosoe and the body and soul of Kazuo Ohno: This collaboration between two extraordinary artists – realized over a period of more than forty years – is presented here in its entirety.
Surely, the fundamentally human state of freedom that Ohno came to express in his dance could have no better conduit to future generations than the vitally human photography of Hosoe. (https://www.shashasha.co/)




It´s Alive! A travers l’œuvre de Gisèle Vienne (Shelter Press) 2019Estelle Hanania
The book from French photographer Estelle Hanania and published by Shelter Press, gathers over ten years of collaboration and archives revolving around the artistic universe of Gisèle Vienne. A subjective monography on the choreographer’s work, the present book makes for one of Estelle Hanania’s densest cluster of images to date, arraying a collection of photographs that spans from 2008 to 2019. (https://www.estellehanania.com/)



Strangely Familiar: Acrobats, Athletes, and Other Traveling Troupes (Aperture) 2008 Michal Chelbin
Chelbin's most frequent subjects are children and adolescents, yet her work encompasses a mix of generations. As Leah Ollman notes, "The atmosphere falls somewhere between public and private. There's a slight titillation of having personal access to performers who, typically, are experienced only remotely. Most immediate, though, are the visual contrasts between young and old, large and small, innocence and experience." (https://store.aperture.org/)


RuskaÎa (Marval) 1992
Luc Choquer
Between 1988 and 1991, photographer Luc Choquer found himself in the turmoil of a country shedding its illusions during Perestroika. As Bernard Frédérik writes, Choquer “incised the entrails of a pathetic everyday life from which, suddenly, a broth of tenderness bursts forth,” capturing a Russia where passion, sometimes jealousy and sometimes revolution, erupts amid pain and provocative joy, and where Russian women and the nation itself confront one another in a fierce transformative moment.
 (https://luc-choquer.com/)


Artek (La Martinière) 2004Claudine Doury
Artek, Doury takes us to a youth summer recreation camp in Crimea. Established back in 1925, Artek had, once again, become a popular place for the children of privileged families in the post-Soviet era. Starting in 1994 and over a span of ten years, the photographer captured sensitive portraits of a generation in transition from child to adulthood. With a delicate feeling for the fragility of this phase of life, Doury took touching pictures that have lost none of their intimacy. (https://leica-camera.com/)


Step By Step (Bloodaxe Books & Amber/Side) 1989Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
In Step by Step, photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen traces the lives of mothers and daughters from a dancing school in North Shields. Over a period of seven years she documents their dreams and realities in conversations and photographs.


Disko (Self Published) 2013
Andrew Miksys
The discos of Lithuania were once Soviet offices, detention centers, weapons storage, rare Lithuanian mushroom-packing plants... who knows? One can dream of their former incarnations and feel that, no matter how grim, they are being violently shoved into history by the hungry young bodies Andrew photographs.



Young Love (Stanley Barker) 2000

Ewen Spencer
In 2000, Spencer was commissioned by Graham Rounthwaite at the British music, fashion and culture magazine The Face to create a series focusing on youth clubs across the United Kingdom. From Cornwall to Lancashire, Spencer photographed teenage clubgoers as they drank, danced, and fell in and out of love and lust.


Future Fantasy (DItto) 2017Vinca Peterson 
Future Fantasy uses the archive of Vinca Petersen spanning the 1990s to tell the story of an adolescent growing up in a world of contradictions: the traditional expectations of beauty in the modelling industry contrasted with the anarchy and freedom of the illegal rave scene and Vinca’s choice to live on the road. Vinca was signed to IMG Models and worked around the world, and made the highly unusual decision to buy a truck and spend her life travelling with sound systems. (https://antennebooks.com/)



Takenokozoku (Area) 2024
Noriko Shibuya
'Every weekend from 1979 until 1982 I photographed the Takenokozoku dancing around the pedestrian zone that opened on Sundays in Harajuku.
They were a group of young people wearing brightly coloured outfits who would dance on Olympic Road. With this photobook I hope to convey something of Japan’s sparkling youth during the 1980s.' Noriko Shibuya


Les Cockettes, 1971
Clay Geerdes
Rare pamphlet devoted to the avant-garde theater group the Cockettes. Originating from Haight-Ashbury, the cockettes were the pioneers in the glam-rock style mixing eclectic fashion, androgyny, cross-dressing. This book was made for their New York show at the Anderson Theater on the Lower East Side. The photographs could be cut out and the reader could dress the different members of the cockettes according to his tastes. A very interesting account of this band of artists who greatly influenced the cultural life of the early 70s and anticipated the arrival of the Glam style. (https://galeriebabylone.com/)

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