January 16, 2023 Issue

I enjoy photography writing. One of the best at it is The New Yorker’s Vince Aletti. He has an excellent “Goings On About Town” note in this week’s issue on Brooklyn Museum’s “Jimmy DeSana: Submission.” He says of DeSana’s pictures, “At once laughable and alarming, playful and lethal, the work still lands like a psychological time bomb.” Aletti’s piece spurred me to visit Brooklyn Museum’s website and check out the exhibition. It includes this striking portrait of William S. Burroughs: