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This week, reviews editor Alex Jovanovich introduces author and critic Gary Indiana’s landmark essay “Ex-Model Found In Wall” from the May 1985 issue. In 1970, the artist Holger Trülzsch and the Countess Vera Gottliebe Anna Gräfin von Lehndorff-Steinort aka Veruschka, the German über-model and one of the most legendary faces of the 1960s embarked on a photo project together for which she posed, less as celebrated subject and more as surreal scaffolding. For one series of pictures, Trülzsch, via scrupulous applications of paint to Veruschka’s nude body, transformed the chic aristocrat into a corporeal prop who blended sometimes, almost seamlessly into various dilapidated settings, like the Fish Auction Hall in Hamburg, among other rough, industrial-looking sites. Gary Indiana’s essay, “Ex-Model Found in Wall,” unpacks this unusual collaboration, while at the same time dismantling his own analytical approach to the work and, in the process, making himself as vu ....