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...dies in the original myth) to a blurry image of Eurydice dropping a glasses case (the catalyst for her death in the play)—is projected onto a screen as well as onto what look like two huge girders criss-crossing the stage. The latter foreground the images, making them almost another character. Because the stage is mostly open, the play uses light to delineate it—portraying shifts between dreaming and waking, or Earth and Hades, by subtle shifts in the quality of the light. At times, it is less subtle: when lighting designer Christopher Akerlind...
...image we all remember from the London terror bombings last July 7 is a grainy snapshot. The picture, captured on a mobile phone camera, shows people escaping from a subway train. In the foreground, a man is holding a cloth over his nose and mouth so he can breathe more easily in the smoky subway.The photograph, one of the best examples to date of a phenomenon many call citizen journalism, reflects the democratization of information. The collision of media and technology has given us powerful, inexpensive tools to create digital content, ranging from blogs to podcasts to videos and more...
...graffitied iron extends beyond the lights. Within the lit frame, however, the décor is not incompatible with the early 1900s. The red lights are not the only delineating separating feature of the set, which was also designed by Lupa. A slightly reflective screen divides the living room foreground from the dining room background, allowing the juxtaposition of divergent actions in the two rooms, so the audience’s attention can easily shift back and forth between the two. The precise physical and mental spaces in which the play takes place are made more unclear by a staging...
...minute movie feel as if it will never end. The most artistically developed sequence involves Charlie and Vic dragging a trunk, which is filled with an overweight hit man, across a dilapidated bridge in the dead of night. The scene is oddly picturesque: a large gray hill in the foreground is overwhelmed by a crystal blue sky, with the actors visible by their shadowed outlines. With an unoriginal plot, dull setting, and lack of humor, all “The Ice Harvest” has to offer is its over-the-top violence. However, the unadulterated gore and violence does...
...huge, eight-by-ten-inch sheets of film) into the wilderness.The resulting images have defined Ansel Adams and the American West. There’s the captivating “Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, 1944,” with an imposing white mountain range in the background and a foreground shrouded in uneven shadow as the sun sets. There’s the photographer’s most famous image, “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941,” in which he does what a photography teacher would almost certainly advise against, leaving the entire top half...