He will soon start work on the second series of Treme, David Simon's follow-up to The Wire, and another microscopic portrait of a world rarely seen in TV drama (in this case, New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina).
For McQueen, the visual artist whose movie career includes the Oscar-winning "12 Years a Slave," the video is intended to be a microscopic portrait of West, with the camera serving as an in-your-face observer.
He titled the book after Darwin's On The Origin of Species, and even illustrated what looks like a rendition of a microscopic bacterial portrait.
Sweeping in scale but microscopic in its portrait of dislocated lives, this début novel finds its most compelling voice in the rueful meditations of a blundering, morphine-addicted American doctor, marooned by his own volition at the edge of the world.
Through the microscopic realism of its portrait of three American no-hopers, played here by a stellar trio of John Goodman, Damian Lewis and Tom Sturridge, it reverberates with political and ethical possibilities.
Roman Vishniac won international acclaim for his photos of shtetlach and Jewish ghettos, celebrity portraits, and microscopic biology.
WEINER LIBRARY "The Art of Science: Portraits of Molecules," digitally enhanced microscopic images.
Microscopic photographs of pond water are interwoven with portraits of townspeople in what Gill calls a series of visual "tapestries".
In many of his pictures, everything has been eliminated but the model, who stands out in sharp outline against an absolutely blank white background; moreover, his portraits are notable for an almost microscopic delineation of human character that reveals a stark concentration on personality.
The documents of Mozart's life — letters, memoirs of friends, portraits, bureaucratic files — have long been scrutinized at a microscopic level.
But the central, most distinctive group of photographs in the book are his portraits of British soldiers, which record their faces in microscopic detail: every pore, hair and wrinkle; every spot, shadow, speck of dirt and grain of sand.
