Photographic icons of Iraq war
By Megan • Mar 10th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Jerry Schwartz reports for the Boston Globe: “Is it a picture of charred bodies hanging from a bridge over the Euphrates River in Fallujah? Is it a picture of a Marine climbing a massive statue of Saddam Hussein to place an American flag on its face, hours after the fall of Baghdad?
Or is it a picture of an Iraqi prisoner standing on a box, arms outstretched with wires attached, a fabric bag covering his head?
The images of Iraq are piling up. The pictures are everywhere — in newspapers, on television, on the Web and, most prominently, in our collective psyche. As much as the body counts and the sad tales of the wounded, as much as the successes and failures in battle, these photographs form the narrative of the past five years.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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