Townley is now a celebrated international contemporary portrait artist, and is BAFTA's Artist in Residence in Los Angeles, painting a host of glittering Hollywood A-listers from Al Pacino to Quentin Tarantino, in his now trademark style.
Depending on how he cut and combed his hair, he resembled a Holbein portrait, an international (or Nazi) spy or an ascetic artist.
Respected film editor and documentary filmmaker Tyler Hubby is believed to be the last photographer to capture a portrait of international artist Mike Kelley on an assignment for Artillery magazine.
She successfully infuses something of an international flavor into her literary portrait, quoting liberally from lesser-known French critics and European acquaintances of McCullers.
This isn't just a fleeting portrait of Glasgow International before it opens to the public, however; it is in some deep sense a reflection of this year's biennial itself.
Alison Klayman, an American freelance journalist working in China, was Johnny on the spot, and her documentary about artist-activist Ai Weiwei has, through Ai's own rocketing international profile, become an essential portrait of a key contemporary figure.
The rooms around the portrait house an international business that continues to run according to Carnegie's principles: call people by their names, be enthusiastic and don't leave without asking for the sale.
For an exposé of the meat market realities of the modern flesh trade, one should turn instead to Girl Model (2011, Dogwoof, E), a genuinely creepy portrait of the international (and nominally legitimate) export of young girls recruited in Siberia to the photographic studios of Japan, where their "fresh" (and borderline anorexic) appearances are perpetually in demand.
Portrait of an international medical team.
The piece "Counted: An Oakland Story," which recently received the top prize at the Third Coast International Audio Festival, offered intimate portraits of the victims who lost their lives and the communities they left behind.
