This exhibition features photographs by Barbara Morgan (American, 1900–92) from the NCMA’s permanent collection. Although Morgan, one of the founders of the photography magazine Aperture, is best known for her studies of modern dance, she also created photomontages and light drawings.
Morgan said: “Whether my work is large or small, abstract or realistic, the one thing that must be present is rhythmic vitality…it doesn’t matter if it is dance or montage or people or nature. There always has to be the presence of energy.”