Yoga was probably far from Josef Albers's mind when he was working on the series of color-saturated pictures he called "Homage to the Square" beginning in 1950.
Three years later, after perfecting his technique with thousands of pictures, he called on a smart department store in St Paul, Minnesota, and persuaded the white owner to let him take its fashion photos.
Then, to the Army photographer, who had got out to take pictures, he called out, "Be careful not to get any of our men in those shots!" At the village of Rach Bap, many of the houses were already burned to the ground and bulldozers were crushing whatever was left standing.
This is Litvinenko at the blurred edge of the picture; he calls Lugovoi from the hotel lobby to tell him that he has arrived.
His brother chased fire trucks and collected baseball cards; he chased foghorns and collected pictures of what he called the "magical leading ladies" of New York Harbor.
Marginal in all three, he started, in the 1880's, taking pictures, or what he called "photographic documents," for architects, stone masons, iron workers, antiquarians, illustrators, sign makers, archivists and painters, including Derain, Matisse, Utrillo and Vlaminck.
"I really do love burritos," Quiroz told me while we scrolled through his pictures, or as he called them, "Sexualized funny food photography".
He takes pictures — "studies," he calls them.
Tennyson, thoughtful and black-bearded, is pictured in what he called the "Dirty Monk" pose.
Mr. Goetzmann's book "Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West" (Knopf, 1966) synthesized a vast repository of diaries, reports, monographs and scholarly studies in presenting a comprehensive picture of what he called the American government's "programmed" information gathering.
ON Monday, Barry Ritholtz, the chief executive of the research firm Fusion IQ and the author of the popular blog the Big Picture, criticized what he called the "Long and Wrong" crowd — people who insist on remaining positive about the markets and the economy.
