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Women in sundresses and straw hats took pictures; men wiped tears from their eyes.
In other pictures, men have huge buttocks, while women are undefined.
And they carried harrowing pictures — men and women, sprawled dead in their plastic chairs or on the ground.
But as is clear from the closing lines of The Borough, he did have his eye on posterity and trusted it would judge him kindly: "This let me hope, that when in public view I bring my Pictures, men may feel them true; 'This is a likeness', may they all declare".
Although the photographs are anti-fashion in this sense, they are also working against the kind of idealized pictures men have been taking of women forever.
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Two canvases picture men in theater seats ogling strippers and chorus girls onstage.
A self-portrait from the 1560s paints like no other picture men haunted by Goethe's interrogation: "Woher?
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