Captions : I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today’s existence. Robert Mapplethorpe

Captions : Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around ‘max black’ after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining ‘bleached’ districts were more likely to elect white Republicans. Adam Cohen