Her lighting enhances the eerie mood of its almost stage-like setting, while the subject's geometric forms have been accentuated.
Among the most famous are Mathew Brady's 1860 albumen print portrait of Lincoln, who appears with a wonderful, almost stage-lit luminescence about his noble, stiff-backed body.
From the shore and TV screens, the evacuation of a US Airways jet that ditched in the Hudson River on Thursday looked almost stage-managed, a slow-motion rescue complete with heroes and zero death.
Driven by another journalist from Amsterdam into Germany for the first time, Abish distrusts the scenery along the Rhine: "Everything on view seemed slightly exaggerated... almost staged — like a reproduction of the original".
Railway feared the worst at Whitley Bay in the first qualifying round, but drew 2-2, then won 5-4 in the replay as Bay, down to nine men, almost staged a miraculous recovery.
It was the second time in four days that Cardiff almost staged a late comeback, having lost 3-2 at Norwich on Saturday after being 3-0 down.
Reading almost staged a dramatic second-half revival as they reduced the deficit through Joe Allen's own goal and a Matt Mills header before a Jem Karacan shot hit a post.
Wallace slotted under Forster after being set up by Davis on the break five minutes later, but Celtic almost staged an amazing escape act when Bocanegra was sent off for pulling down Samaras with a minute of normal time remaining.
But because so many tourists come to see it, it's almost staged so you have to go and find it, but it is there.
