Several years ago, she wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal on the importance of endings, in which she called a play's concluding image "the final meaning, the consummation, the last held breath before the unscripted world courses back in".
Bill Krohn, in his superb recent study "Luis Buñuel" (Taschen), notes that Mr. Alatriste ran out of money before Buñuel was able to film his concluding image: a return to Simon's pillar, now supporting a giant billboard.
And the concluding image of a giant web of light, a sort of compilation of all that Hubble's eye registers, is something to see.
The concluding image was that of a child staring longingly into a bucket.
It's the unforgettable concluding image of Billy Elliot: our hero blossoms into adulthood in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, taking an elemental leap onto the stage.
I suspect the concluding image was designed to reinforce just that: as Vladimir Putin stood to the national anthem, a giant Russian flag appeared on the video screen behind him.
Sinnerbrink writes that the "concluding images float in an indeterminate zone between fantasy and reality, which is perhaps the genuinely metaphysical dimension of the cinematic image", also noting that it might be that the "last sequence comprises the fantasy images of Diane's dying consciousness, concluding with the real moment of her death: the final Silencio".
Each volume includes text by Christopher Klatell woven throughout the images and a concluding essay by Laura Wexler that reflects on the photographs' symbolism, social import, and historical contexts.
The film's concluding, poignant image suggests that for some, escape comes only after a lifetime of self-denial and repetitive motion.
Extraction of primary attributes directly from images (Figure 1m) and (Figure 1r) concludes the image processing step.
