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Article: Arnie Zane at Paula Cooper.(New York)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Arnie Zane is best known as the co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company, but he was a photographer first, and this intimate show suggested that he was a good one. Zane, who died in 1988, studied photography at the State University of New York at Binghamton; there he met Jones, who became his partner and his subject. Many of the photographs are of Jones's sculpted dancer's body. Two black-and-white prints of Jones from 1974, both titled Bill (Torso), recall early modernist works in their muted tones, erotic undercurrent and abstracted, fragmented figuration--Tina Modotti comes to mind. Other images, however, including three self-portraits, in which Zane ...