In March 2020, gallerist Douglas Marshall stated on Don’t Take Pictures’ Rule Breakers: I never want to see another photograph using gold leaf. Akin to the show Portlandia’s brilliant early skit “Put a bird on it,” gold leaf has taken on, in many instances in contemporary photography, a sort of flavor enhancer for otherwise bland photographs.

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