Personal/Body Photography

   For my personal photography/ body photographs I chose to focus body movement and dance. I was intrigued by the way the body moves during dance. It amazes how we miss the little details while watching a performance but photographs can capture the little details. 

I connected my pictures to an Indian classical dance form called Bharatanatyam. This classical dance form not only show dance but tells a story with each movement. The story that is usually told is about Indian gods and goddess. Each hand and leg movement in Bhartnatyam is significant. I chose to use Bhartanatyam because I find it to be a very elegant and interesting type of dance. I decided to present a few of the basic steps to Bhartnatyam. There are 64 basic steps, which are divided into nine different parts. Bhartnatyam originated in South India and is currently view to be the national dane of india. The costume that is usually wore during the dance is different then the pictures that I took. The traditional outfit has multiple piece, when worn looks like one piece. 

The artist that influenced me to do movement photographs was Edward Muybridge. He was one of the artists that started movement photography. He was also interested in the way the body moved. His pictures are a little different then the way I presented my pictures, his pictures were not merged together. They were single frame shoots of a person moving. He also took pictures of animals. Most of the subjects in his pictures were naked