Word: foregrounds
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...inside the head of the drinks vendor who sits on his haunches and stares blankly across the street, and Levitt compels us to imagine the appearance of the unseen woman—or man—whose snow cone-holding hand is all that appears. The print depicts foreground and background people half obscured by a lamp post and a telephone booth, and so, as we wonder, we also revel in the ingenious spontaneity of seemingly unconscious compositions...
...right, an undulating white canvas runs into a street covering a construction site, thus breaking up that structured rigidity. In the middle background, between the tarpaulin and the worker, cars stream by, having just come out of gridlock. Most unsettling, in the very close left foreground, half a woman’s out-of-focus head protrudes into the image, looking from left to right across the frame. The woman disrupts with her half-head intruding on an otherwise neat and easily digestible composition...
...that Kelly and Astaire seemed to compete with each other most explicitly; each invented ever-more outlandish and amazing virtuoso bits with props and especially film tricks. Gene dances with his shadow self ("Cover Girl") or with Jerry the cartoon mouse ("Anchors Aweigh"). Fred dances slo-mo in the foreground while the background dancers move in regular time ("Easter Parade") or up a wall and across the ceilings ("Royal Wedding"). And though the "Got-ta Dance" ballet in "Singin? in the Rain" is terrif, it?s not the number that lodged itself in film history like a diamond...
...movie, opposite Ben Affleck, during the summer hiatus. But if not, no matter. "What I'm fine at is fitting in whatever situation I find myself in," she says. "If I'm the fifth lead in a huge movie, I'm happy. If I'm in the foreground, I'm happy saying, 'O.K., this is my job, and I have to do this.'" That's the stuff real spies--and strong actresses--are made...
...KATE SPADE PRINT CAMPAIGN Art photographer Tierney Gearon shot an upscale suburban couple frolicking with their kids in scenes that are idyllic--almost. Mom bundles her son into a car as a crow glares in the foreground. The kids dress up, half cute, half menacing, in devil costumes. It's a haunting deflation of our myths of the innocuousness of childhood...