Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Environmental Protection Agency are about to launch a comprehensive study. In one of the survey's likely investigations, a plane will fly above large-scale forest fires, and on-board equipment will gauge particle size and the destination of the soot. High above the earth, satellites will photograph the smoke plumes...
...only the second time in history, a human heart had been permanently replaced by a machine. Like a landing on the moon or a close-up photograph of Saturn's rings, it was an event that seized the world's imagination, arousing once again a sense of shuddering awe at the incredible powers of technology, a sense that almost anything is possible, almost anything that can be imagined can be done...
...pinnacles. Dark skies and heavy clouds brood over the land in many of his photos; one, looking across California's fog-shrouded Central Valley from a mountainside above it, is a play of brightness and shadow that seems more a Japanese silk-screen print than a photograph...
...sofas are not a literary or cinematic commonplace, they started right off with a metaphor in search of a meaning. Least Heat Moon's informative but overly journalistic commentary describes the origin of the sofa project in an unused college swimming pool, revealing in a reverent tone that the photographers initially envisioned suing the Red Couch "to disturb the commonplace into something new, and then photograph the results." The presence of the sofa in every picture imposes self-consciousness on the photos, becoming a big red photographic sic; even the most naturalistic portraits of Americans on the couch seem deliberately...
Laura (Demi Moore) enters the picture as a block in Charles's viewfinder: she's standing in front of a boat he wants to photograph. In person, she stirs Charles about as much as if she were his lens cap, or maybe a free. But somewhere between the wharf and the darkroom, her photo becomes something more. Out a mix of photo dots. Lawra becomes line Love, the antuhesis to the cheap sex hunger pains of Charles's brother...