If the self-portrait poems survey the shape of a life from a great, forgiving distance, others occupy a suspended, epiphanic moment, its duration gorgeously etched: "We were in your kitchen eating sherbet /to calm the fever of a summer day.
Based on the findings of the new "Portrait of Jewish Americans" survey from the Pew Research Center, Republicans will need to find a different key.
At Leeds Art Gallery until 19 February 2012 Romantic Camera New displays at Scotland's reopened portrait gallery include a survey of early photography, whose practitioners in Victorian Scotland created haunting images of old Edinburgh.
In fact, a 2001 "Portrait of Family Travel" survey conducted by Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown & Russell, a public relations firm based in Orlando, Fla., reported that 68percentt of 284 parents who were interviewed by telephone saw their children as "very influential" when selecting the destination for a family trip.
For his series, Romano combines each portrait with a short survey, a practice that lands somewhere between taking inventory and keeping a journal.
Just eight years after the last Richard Avedon show, here's a survey of portraits.
In the museum's contemporary gallery, Idelle Weber has assembled a 40-year survey of portraits, from art school model studies made in the 1960's to drawings done this year.
In the survey, a striking portrait of one influential group emerged -- that of a traditional, church-going electorate that leans conservative on social issues and strongly backed Mr. Bush in his victory over Senator John Kerry, the Democratic nominee.
Based on random telephone interviews with 801 blacks across the city, the survey paints a portrait of a community on edge, one that feels victimized by unemployment, police brutality and racial discrimination.
The survey painted a portrait of a nation unsettled about the terrorist attacks -- and is expecting more of them -- at the same time it is worried about the state of the economy.
