Alfred Gescheidt on Satire's Return(s)

Among the letters to the editor published in yesterday’s New York Times was one from photographer Alfred Gescheidt, who wrote (in the wake of the still bubbling brouhaha over Barry Blitt‘s New Yorker cover) of his experience with the relativity of political satire. Gescheidt, who memorably montaged a royal crown onto a photo of then First Lady Nancy Reagan to create a “Queen Nancy” postcard, noted that while “most considered this card clever satire, others thought it crossed the line into vulgarity.”