How to Dance the Waltz
Michal Chelbin
2021
Chelbin explores the connection between the use of dress codes and uniforms to shape identity and instill traditional roles in boys and girls. Young cadets in formal military garb look fragile and sweet. Young women in oversized debutante dresses evoke an old glamor but also outdated views of women in society. This tension is at the heart of Chelbin’s photographs and gives them a deep power.
- Copies: 1500
- Pages: 100
- Type of binding: hardcover
- Dimensions (cm): 30.5X28
- Reproductions: Michal Chelbin
- Printing: Damiani
- Type of printing: Digital
- Publication: Damiani
- Place of publication: Italy
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
- ISBN: 9788862087261
Michal Chelbin was born in Haifa on January 10, 1974. At the age of 15, she began studying at an arts high school, where she discovered photography. During her military service, she served as a photographer in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, and after her discharge, she studied in the Department of Photography at the WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education, graduating with honors (2001). Chelbin cites painters Vermeer, Velázquez, and Caravaggio, as well as photographers Diane Arbus and August Sander, as her sources of inspiration. Her photographic series, captured in Eastern Europe, Israel, Spain, and England and featured in her books, include circus performers, ballroom dancers, prisons, military academies, and matadors. Alongside these artistic projects, Chelbin also photographs for renowned fashion houses worldwide, including Gucci, Dior, Pierre Cardin, and others.
