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He "delivers a satirical, even playful portrait of a world that is perilous but essentially humane".
The playful portrait mode wasn't built to cover sensitive stories like rape, but where there's a platform, there's a hack.
For starters, "Lingua Franca" offers another chapter in the travels of Steven, a character introduced in Mr. Nichols's "Privates on Parade" (1977), an acerbically playful portrait of a military entertainment troupe in Singapore and Malaysia in 1948.
In the end they radically diverge; "Less Than Zero" presents a postmoral landscape of unstinting horror, whereas "Twelve," despite a far higher body count, delivers a satirical, even playful portrait of a world that is perilous but essentially humane.
Notes occasionally scribbled in the margins provide clues to relationships and personalities: beneath a snapshot of a smiling young man and little boy is written, "Foster III and Foster IV"; beneath a playful portrait of a teen-age girl in overalls, a cell phone to her ear, are the words, "Monique just knowing she is so damn fine".
For auction, Annie Leibowitz' playful portrait of Robert Wilson was on display among many paintings and photos, and art-world guests like Hunt Slonem, Bob Colacello, Jay McInerney, Lana Jokel, Fern Mallis, and Katharina Otto-Bernstein could mingle among them.
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I caught up with Jocoy just after the book's soft launch at the Los Angeles Art Book Fair to talk about what it was like capturing these intimate and playful portraits of 1970s punk in the Bay Area.
But "Waging Heavy Peace" — with a title that echoes "Waging Peace," a White House memoir by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, although Mr. Young seems neither to know or care about that — presents a much more playful, capricious portrait of the same tough, controlling person Mr. McDonough described.
Aged 14, he shot a playful self-portrait dressed as the sad clown Pierrot, holding a mirror to his face to create a double image.
It is one way to understand why people upload things that make us gasp, from my friend's playful bare-all portrait to more sinister, illegal activities, like the defacing of parks and monuments with graffiti and other acts of outright vandalism.
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