These pictures are formally stifled and satirically one-dimensional; they lack the Freudian weirdness of Ms. Eisenman's best drawings or watercolors, like the one depicting a family scene of exhibitionism, drug taking and genital mutilation.
"Hold on, I'm posting our picture," Angela (formally known as Leggings) says with her head down, fingers poised over the phone keys.
His pictures became more formally precise, as if to make records of objects for forensic scrutiny.
Versed in New York School abstraction, Pearlstein creates pictures that are formally as tight as drums, and that declare themselves completely and strongly from any distance.
Malick Sidibé, who is now in his 70s and whose storefront studio in Bamako, Mali, is still active, gives the show a historical foundation with his pictures of Malians formally posing and at play.
For many people, Cartier-Bresson is still the world's most famous photographer, and his kind of picture, the intuitive, formally balanced snapshot that celebrates a moment in life, is the kind that they understand and enjoy.
Now there's another startup entering the picture, with Trove formally launching in the San Francisco Bay Area after a few months of testing the concept in beta.
So many photographers who care about composition forget about our boredom, or maybe don't respect it; they give us formally clever pictures, and we yawn.
Ralston Crawford and Charles Sheeler made formally rigorous pictures of urban and industrial subjects that stand on their own as photographs but could also be translated into Cubist paintings by the former or Precisionist pictures by the latter.
"Selected Works" is a bit disappointing in its undoubtedly market-conscious emphasis on formally accomplished pictures, which make me realize that Neel's most elegant works tend to indicate her relative lack of emotional exchange with her subjects.
