Talk:Brad Walls

Notability

Layouts in prominent sources (, , ) do talk about the artist so appear to meet WP:GNG. ~Kvng (talk) 15:36, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

Edit request: Passé (2025)

I am the subject of this article and have a declared COI, so I am requesting rather than making this edit. Proposed new section, to be placed after the existing body text and before the awards list:

== Passé ==
In 2025, Walls produced ''Passé'', a series of aerial photographs of ballet
dancers named after the [[Glossary of ballet#passé|passé]] position.<ref name="dezboom" />
Developed over roughly three years, it was shot in a single eight-hour session in
a New York warehouse with around 60 dancers from [[New York City Ballet]],
[[American Ballet Theatre]], the Joffrey Ballet School and Ballet East. Costumed
in white, they were arranged on a red carpet and
photographed from directly overhead.<ref name="forbes" /><ref name="whitewall" />

The series was shown as a pop-up exhibition at 347 Broome Street in Manhattan
from 12 to 14 September 2025. The space was finished entirely in red and reused
the carpet from the shoot, with sixteen life-sized prints hung at eye
level.<ref name="forbes" /><ref name="mymodernmet" /> Writing for ''[[Forbes]]'',
Tom Teicholz described the compositions as cinematic in the manner of
[[Busby Berkeley]].<ref name="forbes" />

Sources:

• Teicholz, Tom (28 September 2025). "Swans On a Red Carpet: Brad Walls Passé". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2025/09/28/swans-on-a-red-carpet-brad-walls-pass/
• "Form, precision, pattern: inside the symmetrical photography world of Brad Walls". Designboom, 22 July 2025. https://www.designboom.com/art/form-precision-pattern-inside-symmetrical-photography-world-brad-walls-07-22-2025/
• "Ballet Reimagined: Artist Brad Walls Transforms Dance Into Living Sculpture". Whitewall, September 2025. https://whitewall.art/art/ballet-reimagined-artist-brad-walls-transforms-dance-into-living-sculpture/
• "Aerial Photographs Highlight the Dramatic Rhythms of Ballet". My Modern Met, September 2025. https://mymodernmet.com/brad-walls-passe-ballerina-photographs-interview/

Two notes for the reviewing editor: the Forbes piece is a contributor byline and may fall under WP:FORBESCON — I have used it only for uncontested descriptive detail and one attributed critical comment. Sources also conflict on whether the dancers came from the Joffrey Ballet School or The Joffrey Ballet; Designboom says the former and I have followed it. ~2026-42624-69 (talk) 15:49, 1 August 2026 (UTC)