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Gestures and Motion
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Gestures and Motion

When captured in a photographic portrait, a telling gesture or bodily movement can reveal a great deal about an individual's self-identity or the inner emotional landscape an artist wants to project.

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5
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Public
Created
Mar 19, 2017
Updated
Feb 09, 2022
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Spontaneous sleight of hand: RaeLyn braids her hair during a portrait session in 2014.
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Hun Pen, a native of Cambodia who uses the poetic body language of both traditional and contemporary dance forms to explore the nature of the self, channels an ancient deity during a visit to New York in 2004.
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Me and my shadow: A break dancer performs a gravity-defying feat of suspended animation during the Atlantic Antic street fair in downtown Brooklyn in 2014.
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Martinus Miroto, who began dancing in the moonlight as a child raised in a non-electrified rural village in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, combines elements of traditional Javanese trance dances and contemporary Western choreography in a performance of his original work, "Penumbra", during a visit to New York City 1997.
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An eagle with bared claws takes flight during a martial arts demonstration by visiting monks from the Shaolin Temple in Henan China at a Shaolin Temple in Queens, NY in 1996.
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