foreground
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The middle-aged artist appears in the picture’s foreground while behind her “are three small figures, dressed in the winter clothing of the girls of forty years ago.”
Another photo, this one of his mother wearing a lab coat looking at a plant came to the foreground.
From Literature
But the mix of skyscraper horizon and natural foreground fits perfectly with the theme of this programme - to draw our attention to the wildlife around us, something Marot has been interested in all his life.
From BBC
In the foreground, the midwife, known from Byzantine tradition as Salome, meets Joseph’s eyes as she steadies the water he pours into the baby’s bathtub.
So there is a little bit, like, foreground, background, as far as what’s white noise and what comes up to the front.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
