In another, more delicate photograph, Mr. Minkkinen's long, bony leg dangles disembodiedly over the stern of a broad-bottomed rowboat against a backdrop of lake, sky and firs.
A delicate photograph from the early 1890's of Robertson in a poet's blouse seemingly confirms that impression, but Robertson, who lived with his mother until she died in 1907, wore an aspect of purity that acquaintances smiled at.
Using a discarded theater curtain for a backdrop and a borrowed studio filled with daylight, he choreographed some of the most spare and delicate fashion photographs yet produced, treating the clothes less as dresses to be worn than as shapes to be perceived in silhouette.
Utilising organic materials such as dried fruits and vegetables, wine, bones, hair and wood, her delicate assemblages, photographs, drawings and paintings are deeply personal and speak immediately to the viewer.
In 12 single-color etchings, he picks out the constituent colors of a self-portrait photograph with delicate massings of marks and scribbles that verge on abstraction.
PETRA COLLINS Photographer, 21 "This is a young photographer I think is awesome – her photographs are delicate and confrontational, sexy and strong.
In photographs, these delicate works lose much of their impact: but up close, with every smudge and inkblot visible, they have a mesmeric power.
Then there is the delicate question of the photographs themselves, which were not taken by the Nude Avenger but by the players as they romped about taking naked photographs of one another.
While "It girls" Kate Moss and Sienna Miller were among the first to revive the hippie look, with their boho-chic outfits 10 years ago, last week it was still going strong at the music festival Coachella in California, where the stylish sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, were photographed in delicate headbands and floaty, patterned shifts.
She was fascinated by a "strangely moving photograph of a delicate funeral bouquet" that had been preserved in the tomb of Tutankhamen.
He was moved by pictures like "Selling Newspapers," a photograph of a delicate young boy in Ho Chi Minh City, holding a newspaper under one arm, gazing with tired eyes at the camera.
