'Dancer Gene Kelly showing off his balletic grande jetee in this stroboscopic studio study.' Gjon Mili, 1944

gene kelly, reminding us how absolutely masculine ballet can be

Love the sense of movement in a static picture!

reminds me of eadweard muybridge, the horse in motion, 1878. a moment in time, the groundbreaking image that showed for the first time that horses actually take off with all four legs while running www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPCk...

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Gene was the best.