As his new collection shows, this world is large and all-encompassing – his essays range from the political to the historical to the personal, yet they are all projected through an intimate, biographical lens, thus making each a milestone on his long journey on this earth.
Televised police chases have become woven into our DNA in much the same way the expectation has spread that we are entitled to an increasingly more intimate zoom lens view into the lives of those we celebrate, including heads of state such as William and Kate.
The overwrought messaging combined with more slow, tight, intimate close-ups, lens flares and "Crimson and Clover" blaring on the jukebox didn't leave much to the imagination.
The macabre depictions of homicides, suicides, and grisly accidents, originally intended as forensics-training tools for policemen, became intimate and affecting under her lens.
In a career spanning four decades, the Brooklyn native stalked the New York pavement with a Leica camera and a wide-angle lens, capturing New Yorkers at intimate quarters.
The work of Elinor Carucci is concerned with the most intimate moments of life; turning a lens on her family and herself, she is endlessly fascinated with relationships and the human body.
"My cultural lens is a blurry, undefined, intimate one".
Along with four other emerging female photographers, Charchian sets her lens on women, depicting the intimate process of photographing "the female psyche".
Crucially, all the critics seem to overlook the film's exploitative lens: a lens that lingers on intimate images of Winehouse gaunt and high, or on the shocking footage of her body being removed from her Camden home in a body bag.
