Eva Lipman
American photographer, born 1946
High School Prom, School for the Humanities, New York City
1990
Gelatin silver print
10 7/8 x 13 7/8 in. (27.622 x 35.242 centimeters)
Purchase: Priscilla Payne Hurd Endowment Fund, 1991.
1991.002.009

Eva Lipman often uses dance and dancers as backgrounds or subjects for her photographs. In the 1980s she was an amateur ballroom dancer, and expressed her understanding of that world through photography. Later, between 1990 and 1993, she photographed high school proms. In these pictures Lipman recorded spontaneous happenings to explore complex relationships among the students.