Published May 2022 via Trylers Media
★★★
I recently borrowed some photography books—including a couple of ballet photography books—from the library, so when this popped up on Kindle Unlimited I thought it might be a good way to put my free trial to use. (Can't go wrong with pretty ballet photos, right?)
As photos, these are fine, if not wildly inspired. Studio photography rather than performance photography; some of the pictures are lovely, while others feel a bit over-posed. A number of the dancers clearly have skill; I suspect that other models in here are just that—models rather than ballet dancers. (Poses that require a sense of angle but not ballet skill; the least arch I've ever seen on a foot in a ballet photo, etc.) I might well be wrong, but either way some of the pictures were lacking something.
As a book, though: for someone who loves ballet photography, I can see having a physical copy of something like this as a coffee-table book. But other than a one-page introduction, there's no writing and no story—you'd have to love the photos themselves. And as an ebook, I don't think this is worth the purchase price—it would be a slightly better read on a tablet, but I had to read on my computer, which required manually zooming in to see the pictures in any detail. Given the lack of words/story to distinguish this, I'd rather find comparable photos online. This is perhaps more a comment about the limits of ebooks than it is one specific to this book, but if you're going to buy a copy, spring for the paperback—or stick to Kindle Unlimited. 2.5 stars.
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