But the band's driving force was Bryan Ferry, its principal songwriter, lead singer and sometime keyboardist, as well as the architect (by way of his art school friend Antony Price) of the group's glamorous visual style.
The pop that the self-consciously futuristic Human League helped predict, an ideologically defiant non-rock combination of glamorous spectacle, abstract visuals and electronically constructed pop sensation, now dominates what is left of the commercial mainstream, but the group poignantly spend their time exiled from fashion, appearing to ironically lose touch with modern realities.
But in a glamorous, characteristically simple visual touch, the image of Mr. Oppenheim's moving lips is reflected in the shimmering surface of a long, shallow pan of turpentine, the madeleine used to stimulate his memories.
ON THE CW SHOW "Gossip Girl," the charismatic and glamorous Serena van der Woodsen is the glossy visual planet around which all other characters orbit.
In lieu of erotic and visual pleasure, "The Glamorous Life" instead offers regularly timed bouts of pro-forma coitus, a North Korean spy and some smutty weirdness involving a clone of the current President Bush's trigger finger.
It is to a lesser extent about the individual photographers' technique and visual style: Leonard's, glamorous and backlighted; Mili's, stark and stroboscopic; DeCarava's, shadowy and suggestive.
Visual Networks isn't glamorous, but its IPO is turning heads.
I sent Beano visual references of what these glamorous characters looked like and I was completely surprised by what got sent back.
Swiss watchmakers are prolific creators of video shorts designed to entice and educate potential buyers, but until now these have largely been visual essays on craftsmanship and core values or glamorous shots of timepieces, designed to make watch geeks drool.
Through his photography he produced powerful visual reportage of poverty and social unrest, yet he also chronicled the glamorous world of celebrity and fashion.
