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March 15, 2013

Your Turn: Iraq War + 10 (Seizures Palace)

By Michael Shaw

This coming Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Per the caption below, this shot was taken in a bedroom of one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces about a month in. What are you reading?

(photo: Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images. caption: US Army Sergeant Craig Zentkovich from Connecticut of the 1st Brigade Combat Team photographs a pink bedroom at Saddam Hussein’s presidential palace 13 April 2003.)

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  • bks3bks

    No bedside lamps, no WMD.

    –bks

  • Scarabus

    The museum in our town has up an exhibit of Duane Hanson’s sculpture. I couldn’t help seeing this photo from that perspective. A nameless model, frozen in time. We’re asked to explore our own reactions as well as the subject. For example, I think bks’s comment is both apt and clever. I wonder how I’d have reacted if the Hanson exhibit hadn’t just been installed.

    In the example attached, the figure on the left is a self-portrait from 1979.

    http://artblart.com/2011/03/03/exhibition-duane-hanson-gregory-crewdson-uncanny-realities-at-museum-frieder-burda/

  • bystander

    Like bks, my first thought was – stripped to it’s essentials – no WMD were found in this room. But, I also see the soldier as “tourist.”

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