Still, Clive Thompson has created an extraordinary portrait of a beautiful mind receiving inadequate help.

At still another, thanks to the Fogdens, it's an album of extraordinary portraits.

It is a kind of truth; the truth that inheres in the writer's extraordinary portrait of tyranny.

Braiding her hair, making suits for her brother, sketching extraordinary portraits.

The result is an extraordinary expressionistic portrait that suggests the artist, if she had a mind to, could start from scratch instead of taking her cues from found shapes.

This is an extraordinary portrait of a monster, who the authors say was responsible for more than 70 million deaths.

And the result of thew labors etched an extraordinary portrait of pointlessness.

But for anyone interested in presidential politics, then or now, "Path to War" offers an extraordinary portrait of a man at once powerful and powerless.

The Swiss photographer Helmar Lerski (1871-1956) made extraordinary portraits by combining artifice and naturalism with a cinematographer's verve.

Mr. Svenson has printed a selection of these extraordinary portraits in butted pairs on black-bordered panels.