Although not intended as sociological studies, the photographs do offer a vivid record of change.
Discovery and conquest in Africa, Asia, and the Americas inspired historians as well as poets, who left vivid records and expressions of Portuguese voyages and empire.
It's a vivid record of life at society's lower depths by a writer who's learning the art of narrative and descriptive prose.
It is a vivid record of an America which, for the most part, is now distant if not passed away along with Terkel himself.
Like the work of the photographer Edward Burtynsky — whose haunting images of industrial sites are the subject of Jennifer Baichwal's 2006 documentary, "Manufactured Landscapes" — Mr. Park's film is the vivid record of a complex reality.
But there is also something deeply sad and demoralizing about having in our collective possession such a vivid record of a death that could neither be prevented nor, in any immediate way, remedied.
Guantánamo Diary is, said Canongate, "not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir – terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious", and "a document of immense historical importance".
At the height of his career, Mr. Webb traveled to Paris, where he met his wife, Lucille, a New Yorker, and produced a vivid record of the city that earned him comparisons to the French photographer Eugene Atget.
Those journals, begun when she was 15, give a vivid record of a French girlhood at the end of the 19th century, and were presumably not affected by the retrospective power of Picasso's fame.
