The book is broken into seven chapters, and this photograph is in the final chapter, "Living". It's one of the very last images in the book, yet it was the first one I shot. It's titled, "All Hail". This is the excerpt from the book-
This image of Michael Trusnovec was taken on my very first day of shooting Dancers Among Us (before I even had a title). I was walking around Manhattan with a few of my original dancers from the Paul Taylor Dance Company, trying to figure out what I was doing (I was so green that I didn’t even know the difference between modern dance and ballet). I had originally wanted the dancers to wear all black street clothes- an idea I quickly abandoned after a few days. Michael and I had been all over the west village without firing a shot until this idea came to me. Michael conceived of the pose within seconds, adding the lovely detail of putting his hand in his pocket- I definitely learned from the best! We took only seven photos while the cabs were stuck at the stoplight. I missed the shot badly six times, but fortunately I released the shutter at the right moment for this image. When I reviewed the photograph, I got chills because I had never seen anything like it.
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