PREFACE
Photography has been my favorite leisure activity for forty years. My liking for photog- raphy traced back to my medical school days when I had to take specimen and patholog- ical slides. In these forty years, I took pictures ranging from scenery, static objects, to members of the family and gradually cultivated my keen interest. Later, I perceive that photography can catch the gesture of dancers, the changing of expressions and lighting in a second, making an instant moment into perpetuity. This is the highest pleasure of life. The combination of dancing and photography is the masterpiece of technology and arts.
However, the photography in dancing is a great challenge to me. This is due to the limitation of lighting and angle of the stage-there is possibly only lighting of 15 candles and much inconvenience in free-moving. As a result, to take pictures under very quick gestures and movements is like "to shoot at moving targets." I have to push the shutter to catch the art of combining body, music, and lighting, which requires high skill and dexterity. Consequently, more often than not, I failed, rather than succeeded, in most pictures in the beginning. Finally, through ten more years of practice and experience, I am firmly convinced of the importance of the intuition of the photographers-to go with the gestures of the dancers and the rhythm of the music, expect the movement to be performed in the next second, and "catch" the movement simultaneously.
Source: Photographic by Mung-Shiung Shieh
CONTENTS
Kuo Wei-Fan PREFACE
Long Chin-San PREFACE
Huang Kuang-Nan COMMENT
Mung-Shiung Shieh, M.D. PREFACE
The Best of Boston Ballet and Aponte
Don Quixoto
Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky Pas De Deux
After Noon of a Faun
Due Pazzi Sacri
Madrilene Pas De Deux
Melody Pas De Deux.
Venezuelan Ballet
The Washington Ballet
In the glow of the night Birds of paradise
Dance of Yen Wen-Shao
Stuttgarter Ballett
The Rite of Spring Flamenco, Spain
Flamenco Blanca Del Rey
Solea Del Manton
Tonas
Guajira
Solea Del Golpe
Bayanihan The Phillipine Folk dance
Paraw-Paraw Halin Hinan
Kalilang
Umbrales en flor
Opera Bonn Ballet
Carmina Burana
Paganini Rhapsody.
Taipei International Folkdance Festival
Ly Kion Ton Ellinidon Folk dancers foreece
Mollorcan Folk dance Troupe
The Val D'akragas Folkloregroup of Italy
Publish: 1990-08
Publisher: Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Language:Chinese|English
Cover: Paperback
Page: 109
Size: 25 x 24.5 x 1 cm