One of his notable collaborations with Avedon was a portrait of Twiggy with "flying hair", a visual gimmick mastered by Gallant.
The visual gimmick may be the most interesting thing about the film, which otherwise has the studied archness of an over-reaching play (the script is by Gabrielle Zevin).
For this video, he chose to add a few visual gimmicks in the form of shooting through transparent photos of flowers and small pieces of mirror.
The two noted that the episode had only one good visual gimmick; the ability for Pinker to walk through walls, which, they argue, was never exploited to its full extent.
He used visual gimmicks such as playing instruments with his head, usually ending up in personal injury.
Christopher Mount, an assistant curator at the Museum of Modern Art, called Mr. Silvers' work "a visual gimmick;" but I've never seen someone take off so quickly.
Each moment in Nick's newly invisibleexistence has been set up to allow for some new visual gimmick, not to advance his story or make it anything more than skin-deep.
According to director Steve Anderson, the use of digital 3-D helped them tell the story rather than providing a lot of visual gimmicks.
Using their own words and all manner of visual gimmicks, the producer Nicholas Kent pictures Hollywood as wheeler-dealer heaven.
The movie, full of red herrings, visual gimmicks and instances of egregious over-acting, is awfully silly, but not completely awful.