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.
Compared with Arbus's self-possessed, monumental dwarfs, transvestites, twins, carny folk, nudists, prodigious babies, aging dames, desperately bored suburbanites, and young people palpably facing long odds in life, even the most rigorous pictures by her particular artistic heroes — Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lisette Model — can seem sentimentally overburdened.
Trawling back through the history of photography, the most direct relative of these works is perhaps the photography of Lewis Baltz, whose rigorous, stark pictures from the nineteen-seventies of bland industrial parks and ticky-tacky housing developments mapped Minimalist aesthetics onto architectural eyesores with a cool, acerbic wit.
By the same token, Mexico's Carlos Reygadas has made more rigorous and satisfying pictures than Post Tenebras Lux, an exasperating stew of Jungian imagery that somehow bagged him the best director prize.
Our rigorous analysis confirms this picture for LacR-mediated looping.
Of course with the change of the epidemiologic picture more rigorous measures of social distancing, such as school closures may be implemented.
Still, Ms. Malina, a co-founder of the storied Living Theater nearly two-thirds of a century ago, has forgotten more than most of today's genre-mixing young guns will ever know, and her rigorous eye for stage pictures — abetted by Carlo Altomare's intricate moves for the ensemble — is evident throughout "Korach".
And he wasn't wearing any pants!" Tim's pictures were extraordinary: rigorous, alive and shot on the fly.
Mr. Kan's rigorous study focuses on the pictures of people, particularly scenes of work, celebration and play, as well as of the interface between Native and non-Native populations.
Remarkable though his work was, it left a number of insights in need of a rigorous proof, and it provided no geometric picture of how the system behaved.
