The photograph is a fragile family portrait.
There are many rueful chuckles to be harvested from "Supporting Characters," Daniel Schechter's small, minutely observed portrait of fragile egos colliding inside the pressure cooker of New York's indie filmmaking world.
Yet David Storey's "Home," a portrait of four fragile people in a home for the mentally disturbed or disabled, is achingly beautiful, especially as staged by the Actors Company Theater at the Samuel Beckett Theater.
It's not hard to glimpse her mother's regal bearing as she says this, though the daughter, with sad eyes and a warm smile, seems both more fragile and more approachable than portraits of her mother seem to be.
Portraits of our fragile little planet laid siege — whether by aliens, zombies or human warmongers — are a dime a dozen in multiplexes and on television screens, occasions for big explosions that light up the sky.
In a strongly danced performance, Ms. McKerrow poignantly merged technique and dramatic interpretation in a luminous portrait of a sweet, fragile young girl with a streak of fatalism.
Family portraits, the earliest preserved on fragile 8-by-10 glass negatives, trace the evolution of households almost from cradle to grave.
What makes it all the more remarkable -- and fragile -- is what stands next door: a portrait of neglect, an American invention called Liberia.
Gordenker said she was delighted with the works being lent but admitted a pang of regret that the Frick's magnificent Rembrandt portrait of Nicolaes Ruts was too fragile to travel.
His portraits of club goers are intimate, fragile, and show clubs as spaces of unbridled freedom and as I was to learn from our conversation struggle.
