Artwork: 1999.4.1
Michael Rumaker on the Dining Hall porch
This photograph is described by Michael Rumaker, pictured in this photograph, in his book Black Mountain Days. Excerpt: "It was also after one of Merce's classes that Mary Ann Fretz, whose father had driven her down that summer to study photography with Hazel Frieda Larsen and, hence, having a camera always in hand, snapped a campy, "balletic" pose of me perched on the dining porch railing, a nasturtium I snatched from one of the flower vases on the tables held out delicately pinched between thumb and forefinger for 'esthetic' appreciation, a pose in a deliberate and probably satirical opposition to the athletically innovative movements we were learning in Merce's class". (pg. 245).
4 x 4 inches
Gift of Michael Rumaker
Mary Ann Fretz Giusti, Michael Rumaker on the Dining Hall porch, Summer 1953, Inkjet print, Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Gift of Michael Rumaker.