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Yesterday's NYT Magazine , another of those millennial issues, contained an annotated photo cum pensee cum fashion spread wherein actor William H. Macy "revisit[s] major milestones from midcentury America."
With its outward imagery, Gillette is trying to evoke a midcentury aesthetic of progress identified with military might, brute force, and speed.
He is one of the great chroniclers of midcentury luridness, but his photographs of men grinning at a dead body on the sidewalk are like those photographs of Southerners milling around after a lynching: They are undeniably riveting, but you don't really want to stop to think about what the photographer was doing there in the first place.
Well, by the time this photo was taken, most of these things were probably in a landfill in northern Virginia; that's where much--though not quite all--of the original White House interior went around midcentury.
He also astutely recognized it as a midcentury symptom of a "fascinating and somewhat mysterious phenomenon, this one of the parents of America being this nervous about doing right by their children."