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The idea captured the interest of Dutch artist Constant Dullaart, who rebuilt the picture from screenshots of the video and made it the centrepiece of his new London show, Stringendo, Vanishing Mediators. “Given its cultural significance,” he says, “just from an anthropological point of view I thought it would be interesting to examine what values the image contains. The fact that it’s a white lady, topless, anonymous, facing away from the camera. And that it was his wife. He offers her, objectifying her, in his creation for the reproduction of reality.”

Dullaart’s work seeks to expose the technological structures that inform modern visual culture. For him Jennifer in Paradise is a key artefact, the original Photoshop meme. As such, he believes, it belongs in the public domain. His misappropriation of it is a protest.

John Knoll seems unconvinced. “I don’t even understand what he’s doing,” he says, bristling at the idea of the image being reconstructed without permission (ironically using Photoshop).

Jennifer is more sanguine. “The beauty of the internet is that people can take things, and do what they want with them, to project what they want or feel,” she says. (via Jennifer in paradise: the story of the first Photoshopped image | Art and design | theguardian.com)