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Programmatic issues at GSE and information echnology across the University were focal points of the day, Hyman said...
...heads line up diagonally on a pillow before they kiss. Even the chairs in Paris' Luxembourg Gardens have armrests that rise at 45 degrees from the slumping seats. Throughout, Tsai makes the eye follow as if looking at a painting, seldom giving the viewer the luxury of a single focal point...
...Hilliard’s photographs include multiple panels. This technique adds significant depth to each piece. On the Bernard Toale Gallery website, Hilliard explains, “This sequencing of photographs and shifting of focal planes allows me the luxury of guiding the viewer across the photograph, directing their eye; an effect I could never achieve through a single image...
...description, they might as well have been taken in America) depict the moral bankruptcy and decadence of the 1930's in terms of space and the objects that occupy it. An opium pipe, a negligent smoker of that pipe, and the chaise lounge upon which she sleeps are the focal point of "An Opium Smoker Asleep," which simultaneously chronicles and criticizes the social norms of the 1930's Paris demimonde. Lighting is dark and the focus is dim: the space is uninviting and, on top of that, there's no room among the clutter anyway...
...Scene," "Character Studies," seems to work in the opposite direction, analyzing the extent to which people affect and even craft their own environments; space responds to objects rather than defining them. Danny Lyon's "Bikeriders" has four particularly surly looking men straddling their man machines imposingly: they are the focal point and the environment is significant only to the extent that it complements and enhances the bikers' presence...