Michiyo And Dancers By Philip Trager

As art developed and changed, the improvement of technology and the continuity of innovation were integrated into art. The relationship between photography and art has became increasingly integrated. Photography was adopted as one of the mediums to document, extend, and even immortalize dance. Philip Trager was one of the photographers that was at the forefront of this revolution. In discussing the emergence and development of Trager as one of the most accomplished and acknowledged photographers of the twentieth century, this paper focuses on his photograph: Michiyo and Dancers (1988). The choice of the photograph is influenced by the clarity and high definition it embodies, and its representativeness of his human-subject photos that show the subjects as being in a continuous motion. …show more content…
He earned his degree at Wesleyan University and later attended Columbia University School of Law. While he started photography as a hobby, Trager left his legal career in 1992 to pursue photography exclusively. He has published several books and has shown how different subjects, human flesh, and stone and concrete can be complementarily understood if they are filtered through the sensibilities of artists. Unlike other artists, who perceive and treat different subjects differently, Trager’s adoption of human subjects was not a departure from images of architecture and the representation of monolithic structures. Instead through the adoption of human subjects grabbed in midflight, he integrated