wehadfacesthen: Dancers performing Charles Weidman’s Lynchtown, 1936. Photo by Barbara Morgan “A por
wehadfacesthen: Dancers performing Charles Weidman’s Lynchtown, 1936. Photo by Barbara Morgan “A portrait of a community consumed by violent passions, it was filled with accusatory gestures, grotesque hoppings and stampings and fierce pursuits. The twisted minds of bigots were symbolized by twisted bodies. Dancers doubled up with rage and when the lynch mob finally dragged in its victim, they gathered about his body as if they were vultures.” - New York Times -- source link