On display in the Project Space: Light Perspectives, a selection of images from renowned mid-century “beauty photographer” Fernand Fonssagrives. While it’s tempting to describe the subject of these seminal images as the intersection of light and the female body, it’s more accurate to describe them as images that function on two discrete levels: an unabashedly erotic delight in the body of Fonssagrives’s first wife, Swedish dancer Lisa Bergstrom, and rigid patterns of light and shadow given unexpected subtlety when projected against a curved form—which is often Bergstom’s naked body. Though dating from the late ’30s to early ’50s and made with conventional photographic processes, these images are as fresh and rewarding as any digitally enhanced photograph being made today.

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