Beside these portraits – hard-core gastro-porn by modern standards – the text outlined his glorious last lunch, with helpful cutout menus of the dishes and drinks consumed.
It's one of Hawks's best: a bold, expansive epic with a knotty psychological portrait at its core.
The portrait of the core emerging from recent studies is structured and wild, parts of it riven with more weather than the sky.
The portraits form the core of "Who Am I? Remembering the Dead Through Facial Reconstruction," the newest exhibition on display at the Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum.
One section of the museum's permanent exhibition that is already up and running, a multi-media presentation called "core portraits," focuses on Chinese-Americans who in one way or another "exemplify a particular historical period".
Many of the 115 portraits will form the core of "Avedon's Portraits," an exhibition scheduled to open in the fall of 2002.
Although those portraits remain at the core of his art, Mr. Davis has produced an astonishing variety of work, political as well as theatrical and cinematic, including covers for news magazine and books, murals and advertising layouts.
All her works feature variations of a core self-portrait, a girl with dark wavy hair, rosy cheeks, a button nose, and optimistic eyebrows.
As if to underscore the things-past poetry at the series' core, the portraits depict the backs of the children's heads; and we are left to imagine their emotions as well as the nature of their adorable crimes.
It consisted of what they hated about commercial photography and photojournalism, like celebrity portraits and soft-core bathing-beauty advertisements, but also what they liked, like crime scene photos and ethnographic documents: all straight, unpretentious pictures.
