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Notes on Glaze: 18 Photographic Investigations By Wayne Koestenbaum by Wayne Kostenbaum

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funny lighthearted fast-paced

3.0

You are handed an unusual photograph with no information about its subjects or provenance.  You are asked to craft your own caption.  How do you proceed?  Are you wordy, or are you “verbally retentive”?  Do you feel that art must change the world, or do you note that, “we don’t ask jam to foment revolution” and ask, “Why must art be higher than jam?”  If you’re intrigued but stuck, look to poet Wayne Koestenbaum’s Notes on Glaze for inspiration.  Come for the photos, stay for arch captions, and remember, “When you stumble upon unpleasant information, reinterpret it.”