Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow

xvi, 760, [6] pp. A multimedia composition of images inspired by Thomas Pynchon's perennially challenging novel, which was exhibited at the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Zak Smith is a somewhat controversial figure, best known for his images of, in his words, 'half-naked punk-porn chicks,' who appeared in the 2006 adult film Barbed Wire Kiss after the director asked to use one of the images from this book in the movie (the role was part of the deal).