With startling economy, Villeneuve conjures a snapshot portrait of motherhood cut short by a daughter's death; love and despair described with surgical precision.
But before presenting the interrogations as a battle of ideas between Spinoza and his accusers, Mr. Ives gives us a snapshot portrait of the philosopher as a young man.
On a visit there several years ago, the-then British Ambassador showed me around and allowed me to leaf through some photo albums on a side table; they contained the originals of the famous snapshot portrait from the Tehran conference of the Big Three, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, held from November 28 to December 1, 1943.
It was for casual snapshot portraits.
These two women are included in Johan Zoffany's witty snapshot "Portraits of the Academicians of the Royal Academy," of 1771-72, in the Royal Collection.
Mothers, sons, sisters, brothers, partners, friends, cheek-to-cheek, laughing, celebrating: snapshot portraits telling ordinary stories of interracial marriage, closeness, family.
In this case, he had taken snapshot portraits of some bright-eyed children of cane cutters in the Caribbean, only later discovering how worn down with work their parents were.
Joan Harrison, of Glen Cove, has made portraits of her children that are studies in innocence, for instance, while Susan Dooley, of Miller Place, shows snapshot portraits of her travels in China that look a lot like, well, everyone else's photographs of China trips.
The show, which opens Tuesday, includes the hyper-real city shots of Daido Moriyama, moments of human drama captured by Shigeichi Nagano, Mikiko Hara's casual snapshot portraits and images of couples in repose by Masato Seto.
The crazy-quilt patterns are cameraless snapshots — portraits of time fading away.
And never more so than in Manet's mysterious The Railway, which is not quite narrative, snapshot or portrait so much as a hybrid of all three, and the final coup of this show.
