{"id":37,"date":"2025-04-17T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/?p=37"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:05:15","slug":"swan-lake-rehearsal-grand-opera-de-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/2025\/04\/swan-lake-rehearsal-grand-opera-de-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan Lake Rehearsal, Grand Opera de Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alfred Eisenstaedt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>American, b. West Prussia, 1898-1995<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Swan Lake Rehearsal, Grand Opera de Paris<\/em><\/strong><strong>, 1986<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Silver gelatin print, 17 3\/4 x 12 1\/4 inches<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Art Museum purchase through the Eastman Kodak Fund<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1985.1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"703\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1985.1-1-703x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1985.1-1-703x1024.jpg 703w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1985.1-1-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1985.1-1-768x1119.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1985.1-1-1054x1536.jpg 1054w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1985.1-1-1405x2048.jpg 1405w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1985.1-1-scaled.jpg 1756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have illumination only through the skylight of the studio\u2014a Rembrandt sort of light. I used to look at the old master painters in museums and study their light and composition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 Alfred Eisenstaedt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Described as the \u201cfather of photojournalism,\u201d Alfred Eisenstaedt was a button and belt salesman turned professional photographer. Best known for his V-J Day photograph of a sailor and nurse kissing in the streets of New York, Eisenstaedt began taking pictures at the age of 14 and became one of the original staff photographers of <em>Life<\/em> magazine, logging over 2,000 assignments. This particular photograph, taken on his first assignment outside Germany, reveals the influence of painting predecessors and Eisenstaedt\u2019s ability to capture the beauty of passing moments. Eisenstaedt likens his photographic process to that of a carpenter with a hammer: he uses the camera as a tool to capture a precise mood.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Alfred Eisenstaedt American, b. West Prussia, 1898-1995 Swan Lake Rehearsal, Grand Opera de Paris, 1986 Silver gelatin print, 17 3\/4 x 12 1\/4 inches Art <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/2025\/04\/swan-lake-rehearsal-grand-opera-de-paris\/\" title=\"Swan Lake Rehearsal, Grand Opera de Paris\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1564,"featured_media":99,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}