A 1936 photograph of Williams by Carl Van Vechten shows a light-skinned and soft-looking man, with a hint of a smile and gentle shadows underneath his eyes.
For his black-and-white prints, Weegee often used a flash; the resulting pictures were raw, stark, without gentling shadows.
There was a gentler memorial shadow over a show I saw in New York last month.
My block is my front yard, but without the mowing (so much for the nostalgic grass), a stretch of village green where the sunlight is gentler, the shadows less menacing, the faces friendlier than even one street to the north or south.
Again, be gentle with the shadow — subtlety is best here.
"As we gaze into the cascading flow of the fountain," said Edward Smith, the husband of the late Monica Rodriguez Smith, "we realize that the spirit of the loved ones will live on in this quiet, gentle spot in the shadow of the towers".
The appearance of salt in photography is more gentle: invoked by the shadow of a prone bicycle on a bed of salt, where the bike's spinning wheel creates a lo-fi moving image that looks back to the magic lantern shows that predated cinema.
Just after the footpath beside the school passes into the cool late afternoon shadows, a gentle cracking sound signals that Doud Sebet has arrived.
Fortunately, there are no shrieks, no blood, not even a cat leaping gratuitously from a shadow — just a gentle, happy ending as Laszlo and the dark reach a détente.
