Zoë Dominic was a British

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 dance and theatre photographer.

Dominic's work as a theatre photographer began in the Royal Court Theatre

Royal Court Theatre

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 around 1957, and she became known for photographing the postwar British theatre revival, including actors such as Laurence Olivier

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, Joan Plowright

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 and Maggie Smith

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 and performers including Maria Callas

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, Margot Fonteyn

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 and Rudolf Nureyev

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.

John Selwyn Gilbert

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 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

Royal Photographic Society

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's Hood medal in 1986.

Publications

• John Selwyn Gilbert and Zoë Dominic, Frederick Ashton: A Choreographer and His Ballets, Harrap (1971). ISBN 024550351X.
• Janet Baker and Zoë Dominic, Full Circle, an autobiographical Journal (1982). ISBN 9780531098769.