black and white dance from 1977

These are two from long series of self-portraits taken with a Kodak Instamatic camera . To take self-portraits, I tied a string to the shutter release on the side of the camera--that means I must have used an X-15 from the looks of pics on the web. The shutter-release sting would then go down the tripod and out to me. I held the string by hand and by leg and by arm, developing a sly dance that would create enough pressure to pull down the release but not pull over the tripod. The dances of Steve Paxton and Contact Improvisation were specifically on my mind--I'd seen a photo in a NYC paper of Paxton dancing and thought it the most beautiful man pose this side of Egon Schiele. this link is not the shot I'd seen, just a good example of the slight moment of a photo-captured dance that I was after, aiming for, so to speak: http://artsalive.ca/fr/dan/mediatheque/photos/photoWindow.asp?mediaID=277