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@@ -989,92 +989,19 @@ Apropos of Freud's discussion of the Unconscious, he stated that it had "no nega
 
 \chap Everybody Wants Exposure
 
-When photographs are developed the originally white printing paper becomes impressed with the cffects of light upon
-it. The smooth, pure, undefiled surface of such paper thus
-bears the indicia of light upon it. When blue jeans are worn,
-the originally dark blue denim cloth becomes impressed
-with the effects of wear upon it. The crisp, unwashed, navy-blue surface of such cloth thus bears the indicia of wear
-upon it. Both events corroborate each other, something I
-knew was happening whenever I saw photographers devoutly wearing their fading denim jeans. Allegory best explains
-these two events since one narrative, fading jeans, repeats
-another, photodeveloping. Moreover, photographs of faded
-jeans comment enigmatically on the twoevents. The photo,
-"faded"" into existence by means of specific chemicals, registers the jeans that "developed" by means of the elements.
-Our culture's fondness for reproducible images, photo
-graphs, films and television has the equivalent close to
-our bodies in the form of denim articles that retell this
-story of America's love of the photograph. America, or [
-camera, refracts into jean care, for Americans love cameras
-and they love their jeans. Norma Jean (or Love Jean) once
-wore jeans and there are films and photographs of her in
-
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-THE AGE OF OIL
+When photographs are developed the originally white printing paper becomes impressed with the cffects of light upon it. The smooth, pure, undefiled surface of such paper thus bears the indicia of light upon it. When blue jeans are worn, the originally dark blue denim cloth becomes impressed with the effects of wear upon it. The crisp, unwashed, navy-blue surface of such cloth thus bears the indicia of wear upon it. Both events corroborate each other, something I knew was happening whenever I saw photographers devoutly wearing their fading denim jeans. Allegory best explains these two events since one narrative, fading jeans, repeats another, photodeveloping. Moreover, photographs of faded jeans comment enigmatically on the twoevents. The photo, "faded" into existence by means of specific chemicals, registers the jeans that "developed" by means of the elements.
 
-such clothes. Some of the last photos of her show her emerging from a pool, the same developing bath photographers
-use or the same container Levi's manufacturers use to
-prewash their jeans?
-
-It is no wonder that Diana Ross was once photographed
-for an album cover with denim jeans. Michael Landon, a
-celebrity who promotes Kodak cameras, usually wears the
-cloth in the advertisements. Brooke Shields's photographed
-public exposure amplifies itself whenever she participates
-in Calvin Klein jean ads. The most photographed people in
-our culture all possess cryptophors of jeans or Levi's in
-their proper names: Monroe, Dean, Elvis, Kennedy. When
-people want to be noticed, a metaphor for being photographed, they will wear jeans to achieve that attention, exposure, "flash." Going to Studio 54 required wearing a
-pair of jeans, yet the "studio" within the discotheque's
-name could also equivocate with a photographer's studio,
-a truism for in its heydey a lot of photographers snapped
-away at its star habitués.
-
-An additional allegory of photodeveloping is tanning.
-The short time it takes to develop a picture meets up with
-the length of time it takes to develop a tan. The tanned
-body, when photographed by admirers, contrasts with an
-Instamatic's brief registration of light to skin's hourly or
-daily or weckly exposures. Like a lamp-filled photographer's studio, there now are lamp-filled tanning salons so
-as to "Flash 'em a Coppertone Tan!" These tanning salons
-have perhaps accelerated the natural tanning process just as
-photo-technology has accelerated developing speeds.
-
-Jean Harlow died of sun-exposure. Dyeing one's hair
-(exactly how did she dye?) allegorizes photodeveloping,
-from original dark hair to light hair from original print
-
-152
-Everybody Wants Exposure
-
-paper to light-registered paper. Overexposed Deborah
-Harry left her hair in the developer too long. In order to
-shock, people dye their hair, or rather they dye a shock of
-hair. Webster's Dictionary defines a shock as *"a thick
-bushy mass (as of hair)." Dyed blonde shocks shock the
-public so as to further the emergent celebrity's public
-exposure. Light print paper becomes darker like dark hair
-that becomes lighter like dark jeans that become lighter.
-Light hair, like light paper, also changes color to darker
-hues as do prints in developing baths. The cliché of a
-Hollywood home with its swimming pool becomes a giant
-developing bath: starlets in chlorine pools bleach their hair
-while 8 x 10" prints, once immersed, also alter their original hues. The innocent ritual of swimming, either in pools
-or the sea, henceforth metaphorizes into fixer/developer
-baths. Swimming and tanning appear to be best on the
-beaches where celebrities and models swim (Malibu, Hamptons, Fire Island).
-
-Photographs are also connected to a highly nostalgic
-impulse since they are records of a former life however
-hard we try to revive a past now irrevocably absent. The
-mourned for Jean could become the mourning for our
-jeans that are no longer young, unfaded, unworn, these
-connotations allowing us to think of the disfigurations that
-await us when we age, "develop."" But then all of us look
-forward to the time when our jeans will fade just as we
-look forward to the time when we will be photographed.
-
-153
-Tell Me Why
+Our culture's fondness for reproducible images, photo graphs, films and television has the equivalent close to our bodies in the form of denim articles that retell this story of America's love of the photograph. \e{America}, or \e{I camera}, refracts into \e{jean care}, for Americans love cameras and they love their jeans. Norma Jean (or Love Jean) once wore jeans and there are films and photographs of her in such clothes. Some of the last photos of her show her emerging from a pool, the same developing bath photographers use or the same container Levi's manufacturers use to prewash their jeans?
+
+It is no wonder that Diana Ross was once photographed for an album cover with denim jeans. Michael Landon, a celebrity who promotes Kodak cameras, usually wears the cloth in the advertisements. Brooke Shields's photographed public exposure amplifies itself whenever she participates in Calvin Klein jean ads. The most photographed people in our culture all possess cryptophors of jeans or Levi's in their proper names: Monroe, Dean, Elvis, Kennedy. When people want to be noticed, a metaphor for being photographed, they will wear jeans to achieve that attention, exposure, "flash." Going to Studio 54 required wearing a pair of jeans, yet the "studio" within the discotheque's name could also equivocate with a photographer's \e{studio}, a truism for in its heydey a lot of photographers snapped away at its star habitués.
+
+An additional allegory of photodeveloping is tanning.  The short time it takes to develop a picture meets up with the length of time it takes to develop a tan. The tanned body, when photographed by admirers, contrasts with an Instamatic's brief registration of light to skin's hourly or daily or weckly exposures. Like a lamp-filled photographer's studio, there now are lamp-filled tanning salons so as to "Flash 'em a Coppertone Tan!" These tanning salons have perhaps accelerated the natural tanning process just as photo-technology has accelerated developing speeds.
+
+\e{Jean} Harlow died of sun-exposure. Dyeing one's hair (exactly how did she dye?) allegorizes photodeveloping, from original dark hair to light hair from original print paper to light-registered paper. Overexposed Deborah Harry left her hair in the developer too long. In order to \e{shock}, people dye their hair, or rather they dye a \e{shock} of hair. \bt{Webster's Dictionary} defines a shock as "a thick bushy mass (as of hair)." Dyed blonde shocks shock the public so as to further the emergent celebrity's public exposure. Light print paper becomes darker like dark hair that becomes lighter like dark jeans that become lighter.  Light hair, like light paper, also changes color to darker hues as do prints in developing baths. The cliché of a Hollywood home with its swimming pool becomes a giant developing bath: starlets in chlorine pools bleach their hair while $8\times 10$'' prints, once immersed, also alter their original hues. The innocent ritual of swimming, either in pools or the sea, henceforth metaphorizes into fixer/developer baths. Swimming and tanning appear to be best on the beaches where celebrities and models swim (Malibu, Hamptons, Fire Island).
+
+Photographs are also connected to a highly nostalgic impulse since they are records of a former life however hard we try to revive a past now irrevocably absent. The mourned for Jean could become the mourning for our jeans that are no longer young, unfaded, unworn, these connotations allowing us to think of the disfigurations that await us when we age, "develop." But then all of us look forward to the time when our jeans will fade just as we look forward to the time when we will be photographed.
+
+\chap Tell Me Why
 
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