For all its historical density and specificity, "The Immigrant" is among the most painfully and powerfully intimate of movies.
The result, a series of portraits called "the Pink Choice," is a powerfully intimate look at love, shot mostly behind closed doors at home with gay Vietnamese couples.
I am thinking of the brilliant director John Doyle, who gave Broadway audiences powerfully intimate productions of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd" and "Company".
One thinks of Diane Arbus, though Ms. Grannan's works are formally bland by comparison and not so powerfully intimate.
In the contemporary issues stories category, Maika Elan of the Most photo agency won for a powerfully intimate series of portraits of gay couples in Vietnam that was published in Lens earlier this year.
Bryan has created visionary programs for populations in crisis, including combat veterans, through his Theater of War project, which gave its title to his powerfully intimate memoir.
Many photographers have followed Goldin, but very few have produced work that is so monumental in scale and yet so powerfully intimate.
Physical connections made and broken, the most intimate sense of selfhood and self-alienation in terms of a woman's body, are the core of the film, and Vitkova's images have a powerfully intimate physicality to match.
The director is David Lowery, whose 2013 feature "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," a sort of modern and modernist updating of Western tropes, is a powerfully intimate drama with a vast lyrical resonance.
Soon he is staring death in the face in various gunfights and compromised positions, much of it seen here in some powerfully intimate footage shot by VanDyke himself.
Produced by veteran Glyn Johns, who worked with artists like the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Eagles, "Ashes & Fire" is a return to the powerfully intimate delivery style that made his reputation.
