Sculpture has long played muse to photographers, from Charles Nègre's mid-nineteenth-century images of French cathedral statuary to Louise Lawler's sly pictures of contemporary art in its natural habitat.
▶ Brothers in (gammy) arms: Arnie and Sly were pictured lying in twin hospital beds after both were admitted for shoulder surgery this week.
I feel like I'm having a sly look at pictures of Hope on Facebook".
The flicker of surprise that crosses Mr. Damon's brow as Bourne discovers these mysterious abilities is one of the pictures sly, witty touches.
Ms. Banks's eye is intimate, to be sure, but her pictures are sly and funny.
This charming portrayal of the eccentric, unselfconscious Tweedles winks at its audience through both its sly text and playful pictures, where Lafrance's graphite and mixed-media drawings in a fitting palette of greens and yellows capture the family's quaint but rapidly expanding world.
This habit of multiple viewing happened by accident, because first I would see some picture on the sly, and then my parents would say, "Let's go to the movies tonight," so then I'd see the same movie again, since I couldn't say I'd already seen it.
Hence, layered messages in works like "Art Critic," which gently parodies old masters, and in "Triple Self-Portrait," a clever picture, with its sly Picasso and Rembrandt imitations and funny autobiographical metaphors -- all of which were Rockwell's wily means of signaling cognoscenti, who still mostly ignored him.
Next thing we know, Lilya is doing the same, and the saddest sight in the picture is the sly smile that creases her face — a smug teen-age triumph, faintly haloed in guilt — as she marches around the supermarket with her ill-earned cash.
Memorably repetitive and rhythmical text, circular peepholes to anticipate what comes next and pictures packed with sly detail.
