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...World According to Gob, is, by their own admission, Gob’s most commercial effort to date. There is an extra “merchandise” insert in the sleeve of the CD—an appropriate visual preface to the cushy listening experience that one is about to abide. The album’s opening gesture, “For the Moment” reflects languishingly on past and unrequited love affairs: “But I cling to you for survival / And I know that you are my Bible.” Moderately distorted, muted, heavily...
...still the charge of the photographer to anticipate what would be historically important-what features of his or her current generation would come eventually to be defining, and to depict those features with poignancy and beauty. At the very least, this choice to include or exclude--this visual diction, as it were--defines the photographers as artists as well as documentarians...
...some extent, in their chronicling of the emptiness and shallowness of the early 20th century's beuorgeousie, Brassai's work can be seen as constituting a visual companion to such works as Eliot's "The Wasteland" and Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby...
...work, considered from a purely aesthetic and technical standpoint, is quite remarkable. She seamlessly and easily assumes the visual identities of people who, although often living side by side (as in New York City, where many of the "Projects" were shot), come from all walks of life, and differ in socio-economic background, nationality, race, and, of course, style. There is not a single project, though, in which Lee does not seem as organic a component of her environment as any of the actual people with whom she poses. She combines a keen aesthetic sense with an awareness of what...
...this way, Lee achieves two biting critiques in one fell swoop-cutting at both the stereotyped and the stereotyper. We identify others and ourselves in purely visual terms. If Nikki Lee's "Projects" seems at first ridiculous, then, that's the whole point. They are ridiculous...