Zoë Dominic
Zoë Dominic (4 July 1920 – 11 January 2011) was a British dance and theatre photographer. Dominic's work as a theatre photographer began in the Royal Court Theatre around 1957. She became known for photographing the postwar British theatre revival, including actors Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith and performers Maria Callas, Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.
Also recorded as Zoë Denise Dominic
Zoë Dominic
- Name
- Zoë Dominic
- Born
- 4 July 1920
- Birthplace
- London, United Kingdom
- Died
- 11 January 2011
- Education
- London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
- Field
- Photography
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- photographer
- Honours
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- Languages
- English
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Zoë Dominic (4 July 1920 – 11 January 2011) was a British dance and theatre photographer. Dominic's work as a theatre photographer began in the Royal Court Theatre around 1957. She became known for photographing the postwar British theatre revival, including actors Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith and performers Maria Callas, Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.
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John Selwyn Gilbert wrote of her: "I know of no other photographer who got closer to the real spirit of dancers and the dance than Zoë Dominic. She was a remarkable photographer and inspired great trust in the artists she took as subjects. If she caught a dancer in an unflattering pose or making a mistake, a drooping wrist, a lazy, half-pointed foot, she would not print the picture." She was awarded an OBE in 2006 and the Royal Photographic Society's Hood medal in 1986.
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• Name — Zoë Dominic • Born — 4 July 1920 • Birthplace — London, United Kingdom • Died — 11 January 2011 • Education — London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art • Field — Photography
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1920
Zoë Dominic was born on 4 July 1920.
2011
Zoë Dominic died on 11 January 2011.
Publications
• John Selwyn Gilbert and Zoë Dominic, Frederick Ashton: A Choreographer and His Ballets, Harrap (1971).. • Janet Baker and Zoë Dominic, Full Circle, an autobiographical Journal (1982)..
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