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What a treat! A man with a sense of humor and a sense of awe, Josephson contrived some of the most beckoning brainteasers of postmodernism, especially in the 1960s and '70s. When an anonymous arm holds up a Polaroid of clouds against a cloudless sky, all certainties about certainty are gently undone. And when a parked car is twinned in the radiance of a wet street, you realize that if the world is a funny place, it's because the eye and the mind are jokers of the highest order...
...turns out not to be a city at all but a rather ordinary-looking festival site, albeit larger than most. The festival is all about product placement, advertising and naked commerce. Huge billboards sprout up from the walls around the festival, signs for GE and Nextel, Direct TV and Polaroid 'I-Zone' cameras, and one desperately commercial sign in which a brand of Brazilian beer seems to be ejaculating its contents. Outside the walls hundreds of local kids, mostly in their teens, roam about, most shirtless, some playing guitar, others asking for tickets, others seemingly satisfied to simply watch...
...granddaughter's portrait-by-accumulation (a sort of fractured Polaroid, slowly developing) interweaves Joe Kennedy's documents with family letters, diaries and other material that supplies context and depth and a sort of jocular devotion that reflects handsomely upon the old man. From Antibes, 21-year-old Teddy cables: "Happy Father's Day having barrels of fun send money for more barrels Love Ted." From his honeymoon in Acapulco in September 1953, Jack wires: "At last I know true meaning of rapture Jackie is enshrined forever in my heart thanks Mom and Dad for making me worthy of her your...
...features on the internal operating systems of digital cameras. The companies have begun testing wireless solutions with insurance companies and Web auction houses. By next year, Internet-ready SprintPCS phones will be able to hook up to a Kodak DC290 digital camera and send pictures to a Sprint website. Polaroid is developing a $350 digital camera with a built-in modem for release next spring. The first version will require a regular phone-line connection, but future versions could be wireless...
...clown shot out of his own cannon, so you'd expect his collection to have more of the orangutan behavior and chili-pepper colors you get from, say, David La Chappelle, the celebrity photographer who pinwheeled around John three years ago. You do find some of that in the Polaroid self-portraits Lucas Samaras made in the 1970s, when he used to develop the picture, then scribble over it until his face and form became tangled in a vortex of melting candy colors. You find it again in the flagrant comedies of Tracey Moffatt's Something More series, scenes staged...