Many commentators over the years have remarked on the special role that television played in our absorption of the news of that weekend, from the first blurry bulletins on Friday afternoon to the meticulously directed images of the funeral.
"It goes back to the Greeks, doesn't it?" suggests Christopher Haydon, who will be directing Image of an Unknown Young Woman at the Gate theatre, London.
It was a direct image, not a reflection in a mirror.
Roger Bacon, the 13th-century optical scientist and philosopher, used the device to obtain a safe direct image of the sun.
An image reflected off the mercury is observed along with a direct image to give the necessary position data.
Using the European Extremely Large Telescope, which is currently under construction, it might be possible to capture a direct image of the planet.
It can be seen as a story of early 19th-century British imperialism as a direct image of atrocities in the deep south.
It is a particularly direct image, with blunt type, in which the ribs of a starving boy echo the grains of an ear of wheat.
In reality, Mr. Obama barely appears in the movie; the only direct image is a brief news clip early in the drama.
His poems are like koans, and that challenge gave me an appreciation of the direct image, or "the thing itself," and added a new kind of imagist aesthetic to my own work.
Using phototypesetting, a direct image of the text is obtained, positive or negative, according to need, on a photosensitive, usually transparent surface by exposing the surface to light through transparent matrices, negative or positive, of the letters and symbols.
