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Continuous Replay : The Photographs of Arnie Zane

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Continuous Replay : The Photographs of Arnie ZaneContinuous Replay : The Photographs of Arnie Zane by Arnie Zane (Photographer), Jonathan Green (Editor), Bill T. Jones, Susan Leigh Foster

Arnie Zane (1948-1988) is best known for his seventeen-year personal and artistic partnership with choreographer Bill T. Jones. Their creative interchange defined each other's artistic vision and led to one of the most celebrated collaborations in late-twentieth-century dance. The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company continues to bear Zane's name and to be inspired by his spirit.

Continuous Replay, which is titled after a dance work of Zane's, is the first comprehensive presentation of his photography. Zane took up the camera in earnest in 1971, the year he and Jones met. His photography examines the body's physicality, sexual identity, and potential for beauty and decay. The design of the book and of its associated exhibition--which will travel widely within the United States--reflects Zane's aesthetic strategies and the dynamic interplay between his art and life, photography and dance, his collection of found images and his own photographs, and his self-portraits and images of others. The core of the book consists of six portfolios that present Zane's photographs side by side with his artwork, sketches, performance notes, snapshots of Bill and Arnie, and video stills and photos of the company in action. The portfolios are interpreted through writings by friends, dancers, curators, and historians from the worlds of photography, art, and dance.

Essays by Jonathan Green, Susan Leigh Foster, and Christine Pichini commentary by Bill Bissell, Bill T. Jones, Robert Longo, Philip Sykas, and Lois Welk

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Also by Arnie Zane:

Body Against Body- The Dance and Other Collaborations of Bill T. Jones & Arnie Zane

    

Continuous Replay:  The Photographs of Arnie Zane

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Best known as a cofounder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Arnie Zane actually began his exploration of the human form through photography rather than dance. Continuous Replay, on view in the museum's Theater Gallery, examines Zane's photographic oeuvre both before and after he rose to fame as a choreographer with Bill T. Jones. The show provides fascinating insights into the intersections of these two very different modes of expression and how each informed the other within Zane's vision.

Zane met Jones in 1971 and the two became partners in both life and art until Zane's death from AIDS in 1988. The earliest photographs in the exhibition date from 1971, though in appearance they could have been Pictorialist images made at the turn of the twentieth century. Printed in sepia tones, they are posed, highly theatrical depictions of Zane's circle of friends. Even so, they reflect a great deal of interest in the movement and postures of the human body expressing itself...

 

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