Katherine Litz by Available Light, Summer 1951
Panel text reads:

Katherine Litz by
Available Light
Katherine Litz in “The Glyph” (performance)
Black Mountain College, Summer 1951
Choreography: Katherine Litz
Screen: Charles Oscar, based on a painting by Ben Shahn
Music: Lou Harrison, composed to a poem “The Glyph” by
Charles Olson.
This photo and a number of others taken from the same photo series of Katherine Litz are in the Archives of the Library of Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in New York City. The honor is surely enough to make me remember every detail, but the fact is I never forgot.
Wordlessly, she let this unknown registrant hover over a long practice session with a Leica. Session over, she told me she heard "a click" exactly at the heart of each gesture. She asked for copies and insisted on paying for those used a year afterward.
Most important, she validated my intuition and senses and I remember.
Teri Dick Modlin
Photos by Teri Dick Modlin

Artwork: 1995.56.1

Katherine Litz by Available Light, Summer 1951

1995
Photographs and printed paper on foam board
This work was created for the 1995 exhibition Remembering Black Mountain College curated by Mary Emma Harris in conjunction with Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the BMC alumni reunion organized by Mary Holden Thompson, founding director of BMCM+AC.
24 x 18 inches
In copyright
Gift of Teri Dick Modlin
Teri Dick Modlin, Katherine Litz by Available Light, Summer 1951, 1995. Photographs and printed paper on foam board. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the artist.
1995 Remembering Black Mountain College Exhibition and Alumni Reunion Collection
Remembering Black Mountain College