Photo: Sleeping Beauty. Performed by Marcia Haydee. Choreography: Rosela Hightower after Bronislava Nijinska. Production: Stuttgart Ballet. Photography" Max

Our eyes are riveted to the images before us. The Marat/Sade photographs established his reputation as an imaginative interpreter of theater , and led to an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art organized by Peter C. Bunnell in July 1967. Besides Max Waldman's photographs, the works of Frederick Evans, Edward Weston, Clarence White and Minor White were exhibited. Waldman was delighted with the company. He felt that finally his artistic approach was being recognized. Bunnell described Waldman's images as sensuous, evocative and darkly veiled interpretations of the essence and gesture of theater.

Max Waldman was born in Brooklyn, New York , in 1919 of Romanian parents. At the age of eight, his father died; unable to support five children, his mother put them into an orphanage.
In the late 1930's, Max was part of the Civil Conservation Corps, where he first started photographing. He later went to Buffalo State Teacher's College and the Albright Art School. He also attended the Art Students League where he studied sculpting. In 1947, he traveled to Dade County Florida, where he photographed the Color Town photo essay.
 

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