And in pictures of young men diving, the subjects are at once frozen, emblematic shapes on white squares and exhilarating images of the expressive freedom that one suspects the photographer envied in his painter friends.
In January and February, TV screens across the world were filled with exhilarating images of hundreds of thousands of peaceful demonstrators, women and men, braving Hosni Mubarak's goons in Cairo's Tahrir square while Muslims and Christians stood guard over each other as they prayed.
I, and many others, find the Nasa image exhilarating: it is an index of extraordinary human scientific and technical achievement, based in ingenuity, determination and teamwork.
Tyler Shields' "Suspense," an exhilarating array of images that began with a shot the photographer took of himself backflipping across train tracks in the middle of the desert, was originally planned as a series of self-portraits.
An image of exhilarating spontaneity turns out to emerge from close deliberation: that is one revelation of this enthralling survey.
In two majestic woven images — an exhilarating cloudscape and a rock concert in which a Christ-like bearded figure is caught momentarily illuminated in the crowd — Craigie Horsfield pays homage to both the old master painters and to "the seemingly paradoxical effects of digital means opening previously marginal and archaic methods of reinvention".
Peter Bradshaw: The comedy co-exists with a dark view of life's brevity, and Kurosawa devises exhilarating setpieces and captivating images.
Bay decorates the absurd plot with delirious images — an exhilarating car chase, closeups of robots that teem with enticing details, and breathtaking tableaux of cosmic conflicts — that, unfortunately, breeze by in a flash.
The spirit of experimentation that animates so many of the images here is exhilarating.
The strain of rich and anguished feeling in this movie, enhanced by Philip Miller's music and Mr. Young's color-saturated, luminous images, is downright exhilarating, and Mr. Dosunmu manages it with a graceful, nimble touch.
