The restorers began shooting digital copies of the damaged prints with high-resolution professional cameras and specialized no-glare lighting Saturday at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, wearing white gloves to handle the images as though they were museum pieces.
The important thing is to back those points up, with another visual aid, even something as simple as hand illustrating your points on a white board or overhead projector.
At times his visual satire is obvious: a 1997 photograph shows 170 different running shoes on elegant white shelves, a commercial display ludicrously exaggerated by computer.