"The icons of this war..."

Pedro Meyer, for Zone Zero, has written an interesting editorial on the Iraqui abuse photos taken by soldier-amator photographers at Abu Ghraib.

Excerpts:

"I don't think it's too far fetched to assume that the main icons of this second US war in Iraq in 2004, still in process, will be the amateur digital pictures of the tortures performed on Iraqui detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.

In spite of the tens of thousands of pictures produced by professional photographers during this war, these amateur images are the ones that I believe will mark this period in history".

And Meyer makes an interesting comparison:

"It will then have turned out to be that digital cameras became for the Bush administration what the tape recorder was for the Nixon White House".

emily | 2:36 PM | The Military and Iraq. Images and Issues |
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