Word: artifacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harmony intended the film to be an artifact, something which presents all kinds of questions that you have to ask in order to understand its value. The film stands on its own as an artifact--but it's not a conventional narrative...
...know, but I can imagine it being at bottom an act of irony, a means of imparting some of the sophistication irony presumes to an otherwise worthless pop culture artifact. This act, this connoisseuring of camp, is not a rejection of more serious things but the elevation of a paltry thing to a thing of significance in a world that often seems short of them. The poster, the fear-masking jeers of the "Love Story" audience, the gas station name patches on Park Avenue kids, all these and a thousand other acts of irony are not a craven turning away...
Graham--who has an archive of more than 40,000 artifact photos--has been involved with the recovery of stolen artifacts before...
...Guatemalan Consul General Fabiola Fuentes-Orellana said Graham's reputation was enough to convince Guatemalan authorities of the artifact's authenticity...
Then, more than 15 years later, Graham recognized the object when he came across a photograph of an artifact put up for sale an American collector...