One of Faulkner's purposes in this approach is to contrast public images with private realities.

One contrasts images of ground zero with a bill Mr. Hilliard offered to lift sanctions against countries that sponsor terrorism.

Mann's use of starkly contrasted black and white images, fully light subjects and opaque backgrounds, leaves the viewer with nowhere to focus on but the photographic subject.

The project has its own Web site, www.I85widening.com, which contrasts images of the road today with the road to come.

"I like to contrast different images and mix them up," said Ms. Sandhaus, who lives in Israel.

The section of video Judge Coleman approved shows contrasting images of the firing mechanism in the Williams shotgun, which is 10 years old, and in a new gun of the same model.

During the 1970s, Israeli theatre became more critical, contrasting extreme images of Israeli identity, such as the muscleman and the spiritual Jew.

The show ends with a group of four bold and highly contrasted images of rock formations and portentous skies: landscapes that the previous work has not quite foretold.

She contrasts materials, symbolic objects and images in a way that begins to reveal hidden emotions and aspects of identity.