He is the author of Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History (Princeton UP), Emerson and the Climates of History (Stanford UP), and, with Fazal Sheikh, of Fazal Sheikh: Portraits (Steidl).
He has written about the use of meteorological metaphors in Emer-son's meditations on history and politics ("Emerson and the Climates of History," 1997) and the link between photography and history in Benjamin's writings ("Words of Light," 1997).
(And every moment does: for a couple of words of light backup vocals, a revolving riff holding a tune together, and a short lead in harmony with Mr. Campbell. It was fascinating to see how Mr. Thurston slides into this puzzle, subsuming himself into the whole, no matter what he plays).
— Poetry Foundation Let the Light Enter By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Dying Words of Goethe "Light! more light! the shadows deepen, And my life is ebbing low, Throw the windows widely open: Light! more light! before I go.
Project Prakash (prakash is the Sanskrit word for light) sends teams of optometrists and ophthalmologists to villages far from Delhi looking for children who can be helped.
Just among the Johns Hopkins community, word of the light sheet is already out, and scientists have been lining up to use it.
Just among the Johns Hopkins community, word of the light sheet is already out and scientists have been lining up to use it even if that requires the minor inconvenience of bringing specimens over from the medical campus.
At dawn, these words made of light vanish gradually, erased completely by the light of the rising sun.
While I am in complete accord with the opinion of the Court, I desire to add a brief word in light of certain statements made in the dissenting opinion.
It almost seems possible to believe every word in light of Saturday's race, in which Frankel burst from the stalls and immediately went clear of his field, to the audible astonishment of the crowd.
Druckenmiller and Canada discuss the long-term financial impossibility of maintaining Social Security in its current state, though "impossibility" doesn't seem like a strong enough word in light of the data they present.
