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You have to hand it to torturers in the American and British armies. They have artistic flare and an eye for imagery.
The US army may have wantonly permitted the looting and destruction of Iraq’s great library and museum. It may have destroyed much of the ancient ruins of Babylon. But its soldiers, and our own, know how to pose a photograph.
In the same way that many self harmers use their own bodies as canvass and raw materials, so these young artists use the bodies of Iraqis. They stack them and spread them, strip them and pose them. Continue reading