Read more about “Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse” by Vendome Press and purchase your copy here Images by Isabel Magowan of New York City Ballet principal ballerina Lauren Lovette are featured in “Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse” published by Vendome Press. “Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse is a revelatory, irresistible treat for dance aficionados and fashionistas alike. Couturiers […]

Female adolescence seems to remain a particular kind of enigma to the world; how to portray it, even more so. In classical literature it barely exists, as if we are children, girlish and naïve, until one day we become women, with no in-between. In film, it’s often portrayed as feverish or horror-filled in nightmarish coming-of-age […]

The Other Art Fair is delighted to include Isabel Magowan in the upcoming Brooklyn Fair. Magowan’s photographs explore youth and adolescence examining the real versus the imagined. Bright colors and nostalgic imagery initially appear innocent and enticing before the viewer notices the more ominous narrative. Isabel Magowan is a Brooklyn based Artist. She attended Wesleyan […]

This article was published on Artforum.com. Read the full article here. “Even for the balletomaniacs among us, the material history of the art form—one caught up in interpretation, rigor, tradition, and, most of all, practice—can be hard to grasp, hidden as it is in theater archives and the closets of prima ballerinas past. Curator Patricia Mears’s […]

“When Serena Williams steps out on a tennis court dressed in one of her tutu outfits, she reminds us that ballet and fashion have had a reciprocal relationship dating from the art form’s origins in the Renaissance. Indeed, in the following Baroque period, France’s King Louis XIV would prove to be both a dazzling dancer […]

The Salon at The Wing features several works by Isabel at their Soho location. To view the installation and learn more CLICK HERE Pictura Gallery in Indiana features Isabel as a highlight from Review Santa Fe To view the full post CLICK HERE

“Volume 4: Selected Occurrences A LARGE SCALE DECONSTRUCTED BOOK FEATURING 151 IMAGES FROM FIVE PHOTOGRAPHERS, TEN NOTECARDS & AN OBSCURA LAND STICKER A unique book made up of five 26.75×39″ sheets of paper quarter folded to make a large scale 13.375×19.5″ book. Each sheet features one of five photographers who have been capturing occurrences in […]

Published in The New Yorker on October 27, 2017. Read the full article here. “Everything is beautiful at the ballet,” people like to say, and it’s true, it is an art woven out of fantasy and improbable skill and a rarefied aesthetic that continues to inspire wonder. The most advanced C.G.I. has got nothing on […]

Published in The New Yorker on October 27, 2017. Read the full article here. In March, Annabella Sciorra, who received an Emmy nomination for her role in “The Sopranos,” agreed to talk with me for a story I was reporting about Harvey Weinstein. Speaking by phone, I explained that two sources had told me that […]

This article was published in Museé magazine on September 26. Read the full article here. Watch Isabel’s feature in Museé magazine: From the interview: “As a young person, I was performing Nutcracker…From the audiences, it’s all magic, but we were in backstage, seeing the track doors open and the trees go through, and people pulling […]

Published on Vice News on June 7, 2017. Read the full article here. From Edie Segwick to @RichKidsOfInstagram and the Kardashian-Jenner clan, upper-crust unease has long had a chokehold on America’s collective consciousness. Isabel Magowan isn’t attracted to the sinister side of privileged life because it’s wholly unfamiliar. The Manhattan-raised photographer spent her formative years […]

  ”ISABEL MAGOWAN’S PICTURES OFFER A PARTICULAR VIEW INTO A LIFE OF AMERICAN PRIVILEGE, BUT WITH AN IRONIC, SARDONIC TWIST. EXECUTED WITH TECHNICAL PERFECTION, SHE EXPLORES THEMES OF SELF IMAGE AND WORTH, AND MOMENTS OF INNER CLARITY AND SUBTLE DARKNESS. THESE HEIGHTENED, SATURATED PHOTOGRAPHS E ORTLESSLY BLUR MELODRAMA WITH MOMENTS OF TRUE INTIMACY.”—GREGORY CREWDSON “For […]

This article was published in the New Yorker on June 5, 2017. Read the full article here. Emma Cline’s first novel, “The Girls” (Random House), is a song of innocence and experience—in ways that she has intended, and perhaps in ways that she has not. It’s a story of corruption and abuse, set in 1969, […]

From the interview: “I was a ballet dancer growing up, very seriously committed. When I abruptly quit, I felt completely unstable with how I was to define myself. I took a photo class during the second semester of my junior year in high school. The first month in I thought “this is a terrible mistake, […]

“The work of photographer Isabel Magowan is the subject of this issue of MATTE Magazine, a periodical with a specific interest in queer issues, and often dedicated to one artist per publication. Magowan, an American artist, has curated a selection of work informed by her background as a ballet dancer and child performer. Using brightly, sometimes […]

Freddy Martinez interviews Isabel for the Photowoah blog.   “In a short piece written for Photo Booth, The New Yorker’s photography blog, Hilton Als, author of White Girls and the magazine’s theatre critic, introduced the work of a few students he taught in 2014 at Yale’s Graduate School of Art. “I learned something exciting,” he wrote then. “Just as […]

It’s Nice That features Isabel’s photographs. “Isabel Magowan’s series Cygnets is a magnificent portrayal of youth in all its forms. It’s the baby swans’ temperament that inspired Isabel, with their graceful and delicate appearance often undercut by their fierce tendencies. “All the individuals in my images are young, their perspective and attitude towards life only just forming,” […]