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* Barbara Morgan; Photographer of Modern Dancers

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Barbara Morgan, 92, who photographed such modern dancers as Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. Her books include “Martha Graham: 16 Dances in Photographs,” “Summer’s Children,” “Barbara Morgan” and “Barbara Morgan Photomontage.” She also photographed dancers Doris Humphrey, Pearl Primus, Charles Weidman and Erick Hawkins. One of her best known portraits of Graham shows the dancer in a flowing gown, with one leg on the floor and the other arched upward as she presses her right arm to her brow. In New York on Monday.

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