De Rantau described the film as a visual essay, which had shot using the French theory of "outer cinema".

However, he was given as many as eight pages in each issue to present whatever he wanted, including visual essays on auto racing and jazz.

While nothing about these photographs breaks new artistic ground, it is impossible not to feel a sense of appreciation for the fine visual essay.

The result is a taut, compelling visual essay of a kind that few museums, never mind commercial art galleries, could begin to match.

Other pieces, like "Glass," are beautiful visual essays in near total abstraction.

He held onto the unwanted material and turned it into an extended visual essay, with eye-opening results.

They favored observing the world, drawing from life, and creating visual essays.

Both are visual essays, think pieces.

Several of the photographers are showing works in series, either as visual essays or as variations on a theme.

"Good conversation and good visual essays have by and large disappeared from television," he said.