On May 28, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote:
> Don't you think that choosing this photo of _sexualized_ grief, a
> representation of almost visceral necrophiliac desire, is in fact a
> piece of
> propaganda?
From the rest of your post it's clear you don't mean that it's a piece of antiwar propaganda, which is how I see it, consciously or not. I've seen lots of stock images of wailing women mourning their dead, but there's something about the intense and frustrated physical longing in the photo that really got to me. Sure it was erotic, even perverse, but it was so out of the ordinary for grieving photos that it really made me notice. And it sounds like I'm not the only one.
Doug