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Title: Dance Photography of Carl Van Vechten by Carl Van Vechten, Paul Padgette ISBN: 0-02-872680-4 Publisher: Gale Group Pub. Date: 01 October, 1981 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $36.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: ANYTHING BUT AMATEURISH
Comment: Interesting, isn't it, that in a book of photographs, it is the text which comes across more interesting and well considered? Paul Padgette writes a wonderful, lengthy introduction, especially fine for someone, like me, who knows nothing about Van Vechten: dance critic, novelist and photographer.

Padgette selected the 200 photographs in the book from the 5,000 left to the Dance Collection at Lincoln Center. If, as we are told, Van Vechten was "amazingly creative," it will have to be proved in a volume which reproduces his photographs more carefully. Van Vechten, evidentally, chose to remain an amateur photographer, although he got most of the famous stars to sit for him: from Martha Graham to Alecia Markova, from a nine year old Balinese dancer to Josephine Baker, but....(and it is a large "but") the photographs have been reproduced so poorly that they, indeed, look amateurish, poorly lit, grainy.

I own two of Van Vechten's photographs. One is of a scene from the ballet, "Afternoon of a Faun" and the second is of a very young, very handsome Marlon Brando. They look anything but amateurish.