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The phrase "act of picture" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be an incorrect combination of words and does not convey a clear meaning. An example could be: "The act of picture-taking is essential for capturing memories."
Alternatives: "act of photography" or "process of capturing images."
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As we question the act of picture making, we come to realize how photography in our time asserts itself as the one art form, in parallel to moving pictures, in which a philosophy of being and of passing is continually examined.
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That book, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 1978, explored the role of the photographic image, and the act of picture-taking in contemporary culture.
A night of live storytelling, pictures that play with the act of picture-making, a children's story reinvented, and stitched pieces that evoke innocent childhood games as well as sin.
Of note are two truly wonderful action beats, both during the second act of the picture.
As I did my back-and-forth in front of each painting, I felt as though the only difference between the act of my looking at the pictures and his act of painting them was that he had a brush in his hand.
This is an interesting little concept/design piece that's more about the act of taking pictures than, you know, actually taking pictures.
I like the act of making pictures.
A better analogy would have been to child pornography, in which the act of taking pictures of children is itself illegal.
The first, often most satisfying, act of these pictures follows the straitened protagonists, chasing jobs and cockroaches, scrambling around a hardscrabble trailer- camp milieu, until they discover the Big Wrong, a trail of ordinary folk victimized by corporate misconduct.
Rankin: The act of taking pictures is capturing a moment of life, freezing life for a fraction of a second.
The past few years have seen photography hit its apex in terms of ubiquity and accessibility; almost anyone has access to the tools necessary to make images and the act of taking pictures has shifted from newish cultural norm to widespread cultural expectation.
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