She asked her Afro-Brazilian subjects to pose in costumes she created out of animal parts and velvet.
To photograph was to compose (with living subjects, to pose); the desire to arrange elements in the picture did not vanish because the subject was immobilized, or immobile.
He paid his subjects to pose -- he says it would have been immoral not to -- and often directed them, for instance, to take off their clothes.
Wielding a large black camera, he directed his subjects to pose this way and that, reaching over to adjust an arm or a leg.
Because of this awareness, we see a more consistent response by the subjects to pose, making Mr. Small less of a voyeur and more of a personality.
Taking a similar approach, Zinkie Aw asked her subjects to pose with their household trash, revealing the flashy marketing of their consumer goods.
There are ample lounging opportunities throughout the house, because it has been set up as a series of backdrops, like a 19th-century painter's Parisian garret, with a few carefully deployed props, a couch here, a bed there, for portrait subjects to pose on.
Watch for the photographer to count down, or the subjects to pose or say "cheese".
PERPIGNAN, France — In 2007, 10 years after Jocelyn Bain Hogg started chronicling organized crime in Britain, one of his subjects asked to pose for a photo.
