I think it's safe to judge a book by its cover in the case of Marilyn Minter's debut book, $38. In her own way photographer and painter Marilyn Minter sees through material possessions; she sees them as a canvas for splattering such items with mud and sweat. Confused? She puts it, "So many images we see every day are fake looking - if there's any dirt at all, it looks like it's been put on with tweezers."

She opens ...