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After all, OpenAI’s late-2022 releases of its generative-text bot, ChatGPT, and its automated imagemaker, DALL-E 2, did more than anything else to mainstream and advance the much-hyped artificial intelligence revolution.

Hemeter, who owns Imagemaker Photography and Buddy’s, a bar on Delaware Avenue - two businesses deeply affected by the virus - said the pandemic has taken far too much from just about everyone by now.

That lesson wasn’t lost on Ava DuVernay, who talked about King’s virtuosity as an imagemaker when we spoke about her movie “Selma” in 2014.

But he was also an imagemaker in search of material, visual stuff that could be put to use in advancing his career in the competitive avant-garde of the fin-de-siècle art market.

Much like Mr. Lauren before him, James Jebbia, Supreme’s notoriously press-shy founder, is also a master imagemaker, one who knows that cooler-than-thou skateboarders and artists can be just as appealing on Instagram as glossy models.