Unposed

We would like to have portraits wherever they can be secured, but we urge your photographers to make the studies as simple, natural, and "unposed" as possible. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

The results can be so intimate that we feel like voyeurs or, alternatively, aggressively confrontational, but Degas's engagement with the expressive possibilities of a glimpse of an apparently unposed, unclothed body remains constant. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)

That's a nice buck, and the photo is candid, unposed and tasteful. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The photo was unposed as many people were simply shoving camera phones in his face and he accepted this with good-nature. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Realistic depictions of nurses treating their patients, leaning over them in "caring, motherly positions" and all the poses completely unposed as it were. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He disguised his camera as a large brown paper parcel and the shots he took are unposed and natural. ❋ Hermes (2009)

Paws, unposed and taken all unawares of the paw theme, ten minutes ago when I got back from the store. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Another problem is that when I make my bends I can easily lose the length proportions I established on the unposed version. ❋ Weapon Of Mass Imagination (2009)

I have published some photos over the years—mostly spreads with articles and a precious few old magazine covers—and I always thought unposed shots taken by competent amateurs gave those publications an authentic, journalistic feel. ❋ John Gierach (2008)

The calendar includes charming photos of president-elect Obama as well as inspirational quotes from Obama, Nelson Mandela, John F. Kennedy and others and the photos included seem mostly unposed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now I can't get any unposed picture of him -- he sees the camera, sits and smiles, and waits for his treat. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As in the bad old days, this new generation of photographs looks for all the world like casual, unposed snaps of stars at play. ❋ Andrew Morton (2007)

It looks accidental, unposed, snapped over the robot's shoulder, in a way. ❋ Unknown (2007)