She doesn't so much depict a universal humanity as practically force it into the viewer's place, where it implicates, illuminates and bedazzles.
Unless of course, people actually watch the video of Ziegler being detained, helpfully provided by Fox, which doesn't so much depict a stoic documentarian heroically facing authority figures as it does a man who seems eager to restage the "Don't tase me, bro!" video, by laughing maniacally, flopping around, and acting as if he is in the throes of a particularly thunderous bowel movement.
"Here, then, gentle discussions and innocent pleasantries were heard," Castiglione wrote of the delightful ambience fostered by Elisabetta Gonzaga, the duchess who presided over the fabled gatherings, "and on everyone's face a jocund gaiety could be seen depicted, so much so that the house could be called the very abode of joyfulness.
"I think that the shock of being celebrated, rewarded for depicting so much death, gave me the bends..."...
One stares at it not so much for what it depicts, but because of how, and from what, it is made.
The question is why were Japanese – compared not just with Europeans, but other Asians, too – so much more open to depicting sex?
Its theme: "Wouldn't a million dollars make your life so much easier?" Three commercials depict a mother who uses the $1 million prize to hire an executive assistant, who performs undesirable tasks like lecturing her children.
The image is a radical departure in photography not so much for what it depicts, but for what it doesn't, and for the notion that a serious artist would put this photograph forward in any kind of serious way.
"These photographs depict so much of what these children experienced with their families," she said.
The male sex organ is depicted not so much as a body part, but more as a fetish object in its own right – a thing independent of the male body, worthy of intense, delirious veneration.
