tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6965436484511355077.post6651116518301697995..comments2019-07-02T07:22:25.576-07:00Comments on tics, tics & tics: On Nakedness at Abu-GhraibAndrei Molotiuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17400106944822618816noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6965436484511355077.post-60440885353903716692011-01-11T05:55:24.861-08:002011-01-11T05:55:24.861-08:00BTW, this "ethical turn" of which you sp...BTW, this "ethical turn" of which you speak -- is this another French import I missed, or is it something personal?Peter J. Schwartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11822599925761846894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6965436484511355077.post-31180195218040174932011-01-11T05:50:17.057-08:002011-01-11T05:50:17.057-08:00I think you're right about the hell iconograph...I think you're right about the hell iconography. What do you make of the way the press tended to select for reproduction (ad nauseam, ha ha) of, above all, the one picture that had a certain haunting formal beauty?<br /><br />This one:<br /><br /> http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/18/detainee.abuse.lookback/index.html<br /><br />Which was cropped down from this:<br /><br />http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/iraq-reopen-rename-abu-ghraib-prison<br /><br />Oh yes, silly me... the Crucifixion.<br /><br />(How nice of us also to recast Muslim martyrs as Christian ones, with just a soupçon of KKK.)<br /><br />And then this one, I think, has a certain formal beauty:<br /><br />http://citizented.com/?m=201005<br /><br />Not that they're good art or that the beauty, such as it is, or the iconography, such as it may be, was intentional; it's maybe just that it seems to me that the composition, and the iconographic echoes (not sure what those might be in the last case, though I sense there may be some) made the effect of horror aesthetically stronger than it is even in the shots of men's heads bashed in, and so on.Peter J. Schwartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11822599925761846894noreply@blogger.com