Mr. Bannon said that because the photographs had sat for so long out of the light, their colors remained particularly vivid.

"The photographs of the items," she said, "were sitting on my lap."

A grainy black-and-white photograph of Wilson sat under the line.

When the final photograph sat in front of him, he cleared his throat.

His photograph sat on her desk, and she described it.

The wall of one room is lined with shelves where photographs sit and overlap each other, producing what might be called a high-concept jumble.

Originally published in 1957, the essay begins with a simple photograph of a Dutch girl sitting outside her school and holding a cat.

A wooden-framed photograph of someone's kids sat on the desk nearest the door.

Clothes and photographs and even cinderblocks sat perched in trees.

A framed photograph of one of their five dogs, Shorty, a terrier, sat on a shelf next to them.