Mr. James composed "Portraits" as part of a three-year residency sponsored by Meet the Composer's New Residencies program.
Staring out at you from these thoughtfully composed portraits are children who look happy and lovable.
Their carefully composed portraits not only depict the clothes, accessories, and the homes of their subjects, they also capture the very essence of their lifestyles.
Over a career covering a half-century, she was known among the cognoscenti for carefully composed portraits and landscapes as well as her collaborations with noted authors for a series of travel books on locales like Paris, Dublin and New York.
"Where Cariou's serene and deliberately composed portraits and landscape photographs depict the natural beauty of the Rastafarians and their surrounding environs," the decision stated, "Prince's crude and jarring works, on the other hand, are hectic and provocative".
1753 Japan October 31, 1806 Tokyo, Japan Utamaro, in full Kitagawa Utamaro, original name Kitagawa Nebsuyoshi (born 1753, Japan died Oct. 31, 1806, Edo, Japan d.) Japanese printmaker and painter who was one of the greatest artists of the ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") movement; he is known especially for his masterfully composed portraits of sensuous female beauties.
Evelyn Hofer, a photographer whose searching, exactingly composed portraits imparted a grave serenity to her human and architectural subjects and who collaborated on a renowned series of travel books with eminent writers in the 1950s and 1960s, died on Nov. 2 in Mexico City.
At first glance, the pictures appeared to be studiously composed portraits from another era, an intensely formalist black-and-white discourse on the collision of cultures between upper-class India and a rich and seductive West, represented by a European-looking woman, sometimes shown nude, and by decors that resembled what one imagines a Calvin Klein ad might have looked like 75 years ago.
The images – three of which have been given to the Guardian by her parents – include brief snatches of video of two Afghan children, photographs of two men believed to be farmers, and around 10 carefully composed portraits of one of her captors.
His work is concerned with landscape and mythology, but he also composed portraits.
