ECSTATIC TRUTH : Good Morning Baghdad (2008)
Photo documentation of New York subway distribution
Archival inkjet print on paper (wrapper), found newspaper (interior)
Part of the 'Ecstatic Truth Devices' series
For too long, the argument goes, has art been an ornament and a diversion; [...] Art that does not help in the fight diverts attention from it. -Norbert Lynton, The Story of Modern Art, London/New York : Phaidon, 2001
An apparition of a magazine devoted to the 6th year of war in Iraq. Published sporadically, it's cover photos illustrate the death count by bombings per month in Iraq. The back page is the Arts & Culture section profiling the looted art of Iraq since the Gulf War..
Series Index:
introduction
Good Morning Baghdad (broadsheet)
A Boy's Game (book)
Vonnegut's TiVo (video)