The 65th anniversary of the D-day landings this week is an occasion to revisit joyful pictures of the liberation of France in 1944.
While Muholi works in color for other projects — including joyful pictures of gay and lesbian weddings and a related video, also on view at the museum — she opts for black and white in her portraits, "to create a sense of timelessness — a sense that we've been here before, but we're looking at human beings who have never before had an opportunity to be seen".
Life moves by faster than a blink, so we picture a joyful way of dealing with that image by imagining a peach flying through the air.
The film's before-and-after pictures of joyful, carefree young men reduced to haunted, hollow-eyed skeletons covered with the lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma evoke World War II photos of concentration camp prisoners.
By the end of the picture, a strangely joyful spectacle of lamentation and misery adapted by Mr. Maddin and George Toles from an original screenplay by the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, you may be inclined to agree.
I knew it was my assigned time to take my 24 picture and I wanted to capture that joyful moment.
Puffball: sexuality under circus's big top Puffball review – intriguing, unsettling and joyful Naked juggling and hair-hanging: CircusFest 2014 – in pictures.
I picture the survivors whose letters to Mariska compelled her to start Joyful Heart twelve years ago.
They blend joyful circus scenes, such as "The Horse, the Rider and the Clown" (pictured) from 1943-44, with more ambiguous images of aggression and loss; the bright yellow stars of "Icarus" can just as easily be read as exploding bombs.
(In a video from 2010, the Frick's former curator, Colin Bailey, offered an alternate, but still de Bottonian, reaction: "The picture gives us comfort because it seems so restful, so joyous, so joyful").
