More reviews from the UK!  The British fine arts magazine Modern Painters offers its thoughts on LaPorte, Indiana in their new issue:

Roland Barthes famously noted that in the 1953 film Julius Caesar, coiffure guaranteed historical  authenticity: The cod-classical fringe flagged the male actors' Roman-ness.  In Jason Bitner's selection of found studio portraits from the 1950s and 1960s, the equivalent ensign is a little tuft of hair that sticks straight up from a brutal haircut.