is a 2012 documentary-style art film that serves as the thirteenth installment in the long-running Glimpse series by the American photographer and director Roy Stuart. With a runtime of approximately 130 minutes, the film continues Stuart’s long-standing exploration of visual aesthetics, blending cinematic storytelling with the voyeuristic photographic style for which he is well known. The Vision Behind the Series
In this reading, the “glimpse” is intrusive. The viewer becomes the voyeur, and that discomfort is the point of the art. Stuart himself rarely comments on individual pieces, but in a 2005 interview in The Paris Review , he said: “I don’t photograph women. I photograph truths. And the truth is rarely comfortable.” glimpse 13 roy stuart
When the legal wheels turned, Roy expected gratitude and nothing. He got a handwritten note from Elise a week later that began: For Glimpse 13. It was short, the way people write when they are still learning the vocabulary of safety. “Thank you,” it said. “They kept a ledger of me for a while. You made a hole in it.” is a 2012 documentary-style art film that serves