Sneaky, sneaky picture

Hmmmm, very sneaky and subversive bit in the new issue of Wired (in
the US, anyway), dated January 2004.

On page 27 (and in the table of contents), there is a piece about the
creation of a national ID card, complete with barcode, fingerprint,
and apparently holographic photograph.

Someone handy with Photoshop inserted on the sample card, as a
portrait: the famous Lotte Jacobi portrait of JDS (the eyes of which
are excerpted on the www.roughdraft.org web site, for you to click to
enter the bananafish archive).

For those fortunate enough to own a true Catcher first edition with
original dust jacket, it's the picture that appears on the full back
cover, the one that disgusted Salinger so much that he forced Little,
Brown to remove it from subsequent printings, meaning that today's
hardcover DJ has a blank back page.

Someone, somewhere, was really going out on a limb. Pretty cool
little sly detail, I would say.

I don't know that JDS can stop anyone from using his picture in
general. Lotte Jacobi has been dead for a number of years, and as far
as I know, her estate (whoever, that is, who controls the reprint
rights for her pictures) has never taken the heavy-handed Salinger
approach of clamping down on unauthorized use.

The image seems credited to "Joost Korngold."

Check it out on a newsstand near you. The cover is blood-red.

--tim
Received on Wed Dec 24 01:22:00 2003