About this artwork
David Vestal studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before turning to photography in the late 1940s. He honed his craft under Sid Grossman at New York’s Photo League, a cooperative dedicated to documentary photography and social activism, but preferred depicting single moments to producing social interest photo essays. In this image, made on a trip to Brazil in 1960–61 (for a book that was never published), Vestal captured the joyous, blurred motion of students in a school of capoeira, a Brazilian martial art that combines dance and music. Hugh Edwards acquired 15 of Vestal’s photographs in 1965.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- David Vestal
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Title
- Academia de Angola, School of Capoeira, Salvador, Bahia
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1961
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Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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Dimensions
- Image: 22.7 × 34 cm (8 15/16 × 13 7/16 in.); Paper: 22.9 × 34.3 cm (9 1/16 × 13 9/16 in.); Mount: 56 × 45.6 cm (22 1/16 × 18 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of David Vestal
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Reference Number
- 1965.124