Nesa Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
"Stand"
What does stand mean here?
"Lang began to go out on to the street at every chance she could get. She has said: 'I'd begun to get a much firmer grip on the things I really wanted to in my work. This photograph of the man with his head on his arms, for instance- five years earlier, I would have thought it enough to take a picture of a man, no more. But now, I wanted to take a picture of a man as he stood in the world- in this case, a man with his head down, with his back against the wall...' "
I got that the photographer thought completely different in earlier years and now her point of view has changed. I just could't get the meaning of stand in the world.
"Lang began to go out on to the street at every chance she could get. She has said: 'I'd begun to get a much firmer grip on the things I really wanted to in my work. This photograph of the man with his head on his arms, for instance- five years earlier, I would have thought it enough to take a picture of a man, no more. But now, I wanted to take a picture of a man as he stood in the world- in this case, a man with his head down, with his back against the wall...' "
I got that the photographer thought completely different in earlier years and now her point of view has changed. I just could't get the meaning of stand in the world.
Top answer
As he stood in the world = in the way that he related to the world, his self-felt and social status, his view of himself in the nature of the world around him.
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As he stood in the world = in the way that he related to the world, his self-felt and social status, his view of himself in the nature of the world around him.
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