Sentence examples for fixing an image from inspiring English sources

Morris befriended and worked with many of these photographers - a generation dedicated to fixing an image, now all but faded away.

Shortly after Louis Daguerre succeeded in fixing an image on a silver-coated copper plate, the "Excursions Daguérriennes" project was launched to document "vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe".

The book also celebrates the technical achievements of the French, starting with the shadowy images of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, who invented photography when he succeeded in fixing an image formed inside a camera on a silver plate.

He wrote the screenplay for Paris, Texas, the great, atmospheric Wim Wenders film, and played another cowboy-ish character in Robert Altman's adaptation of Shepard's stage play Fool for Love, fixing an image in the public imagination of both him and a remote, fly-blown America a world away from the metropolises on either coast.

But the very brilliance of Russell's film has fixed an image in people's minds of Delius as a blind, paralysed, cantankerous old man.

Mr. Lazio's late start means that he must fix an image of himself in the public mind before she does.

Crude, cleverly exploiting the ancient power of a still picture over moving ones to fix an image in a viewer's mind, the posters share a calculated homeliness and violence that is in its own way artful.

His sister came in every day and there were occasional motoring holidays around Britain with Billy Chappell, during which Burra would periodically stiffen, and fix an image on his all-seeing eye.

Freud was attracted to Bacon's merciless wit and risk-taking, admiring his impulsive handling of paint, yet curiously it was Bacon who tried repeatedly to fix an image of his younger friend's physical magnetism.

Provide enough time before the end of the period for students to meet with another group, share their photo descriptions, and discuss the last preceding question, adding to or modifying, as appropriate, their own group's list of qualities that fix an image in the mind.

It is Mr. Hockney's view that the invention of contemporary photography -- or as he put it "the invention of chemicals to fix an image already seen" -- lasted about 160 years, until computers took over, allowing photographers to "draw" on their work like painters.