Where most of the boys Lena had seen so far had tightly cropped hair and wore baggy jeans and T-shirts, Scooter had long black hair and wore a pastel blue tank top and bright orange Hawaiian shorts.

The central image is a tightly cropped and intimate portrayal Mary cradling the infant Jesus, who plays with a red rosary tied around his neck.

His white shirt crackles with starch and his graying hair is tightly cropped.

Whereas most campaign photographs are tightly cropped and simplistically composed, Mr. Grace's pictures have a refreshing looseness.

Symmetrically positioned, with soft lighting that created no shadows, and tightly cropped, they were in effect a preview of the compressed compositional style he was to use in photographing the houses, places and people that conveyed his vision of American life.

Many of these pictures have almost a brutal immediacy, with scenes tightly cropped and framed at dizzying angles.

Mr. Barney is six feet tall, muscular, his hair tightly cropped.

In her tightly cropped, crisply delineated pictures of female torsos bound in bizarre varieties of lingerie, an eerie stillness is fraught with sexual tension.

Symmetrically positioned and tightly cropped, with soft lighting that created no shadows, they preview the compressed compositional style he later used.

Tightly cropped and frontally composed, the images were as provocative as any of Mr. Jones's explicitly combative solos.