portrait

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But their emphasis here presents Man Ray, who was a talented portrait photographer, as an experimentalist chasing rather than creating imagery.

From The Wall Street Journal

In John Knowles’s portrait of the boys’ Arcadian lives, World War II seems very far away.

From The Wall Street Journal

Roth paints a dreary portrait of how that scenario could have played out, but the horrors are resolved by something of a deus ex machina rather than by any one character’s bold, heroic actions.

From Los Angeles Times

Photos showed her praying while holding incense sticks and comforting bereaved people near displayed names and portraits of at least two soldiers.

From Barron's

Another journalist I was speaking to thought the entire thing was a metaphor and portrait of grief and depression.

From The Wall Street Journal