“The color photographs (by Ericka Beckman, Alice Albert, Sarah Charlesworth, Richard Prince, and Laurie Simmons) address these problematics the most articulately. These photographers manipulate quite intentionally the mechanisms of fascination and technical effect…Ericka Beckman’s photographic diptych, in its hyper-seductiveness and elaborate artifice, juxtaposes something like a galleon burning at sea and reflected in the water, with a toy photographed to suggest a spacecraft…”
