Sentences with phrase «deadpan images»

The series of deadpan images by photographer Ad van Denderen depicts anonymous Dutch army recruits assigned to peacekeeping (or war - extending) activities.

Since the late 1970s, photographer Judy Fiskin has captured deadpan images of architecture in themed series such as Military Architecture, 35 Views of San Bernadino, Desert, My Trip to New York, New Orleans, and Dingbat.

Secondly, the works are deadpan images of the fragility and finiteness of things — like glass and people (me).

Lesley Schiff, originally a painter, has made deadpan images of everyday objects like a radio or a clock, as well as moody still lifes with fruit and plants.

The Bechers are celebrated for their deadpan images of industrial architecture (the water towers are best known), indebted to the 1920s German realist movement known as New Objectivity.

Joe Goode's deadpan images of milk bottles, suburban homes, open skies, forest fires, water, and smog are included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Menil Collection in Houston; the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Pop artist Ed Ruscha, a MOCA trustee known for his deadpan images of parking lots, gas stations and L.A. architecture, now sells pieces for $ 3 million to $ 6 million at auction; he didn't come close to crossing the $ 1 million barrier before 2002.

Not exact matches

On top of the deadpan humour, there are purposely ugly, terrible images in the film involving drug use and mass sexual exploits openly conducted and celebrated in Belfort's firm.

But it was his 2011 appearance as himself, on Ricky Gervais» rightfully brief HBO series Life's Too Short, that outlined the particular set of skills Neeson possesses to make his transition into comedy a natural one: a brutal, unflinching deadpan, and a resourceful willingness to play with and mock his increasingly terrifying image.

With cantilevered perspectives and dark inky splotches speckling the corners, the spooky images of stark forests, gaping caves, bloodshot eyes, and ominous shadows are brilliantly married to the text printed in manic handwritten fonts, some crazed and swirling, others coldly deadpan.

With deadpan drollery, LaDuke raced through a gamut of concerns, from abject life to brutish death, presenting images of paintings that veered from the photorealistic to the abstract and of extraordinarily painstaking, lifelike sculptures.

While the drawings and prints in the exhibition reflect the purity of his mark - making, his deadpan humor comes across especially in a series of drawn - on polaroid images of his fingernails.

Throughout each of these videos, Phillipson's prose invites us into the mind of a dexterous and persuasive narrator whose deadpan observations trace the syntax of ideas and images that populate our everyday multimedia landscapes.

But a huge proportion of works deal in words rather than images, in the deadpan inter-national language of English.

Like the «Modern History» works, much of Ms. Charlesworth's art is bracingly deadpan, exemplified by a 1980 series called «Stills» that consists of images culled from the media of people jumping from buildings to escape fires or to commit suicide.

This kind of deadpan approach allows the viewer to concentrate on the poise of the composition as well as the richness of detail in each image, but it is hardly gemütlich in the way one might assume from the subject matter.

Inspired by a variety of technical illustrations he found on the Internet, Winters invented wild, colorful patterns that took on lives of their own, so that — save for the deadpan titles (Cell, Cobalt, Cinnabar)-- it's almost impossible to tell what their source images depicted.