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AN ARM AND A LEG (PART OF THE SERIES “BODY BAGS.”), WATERCOLOR ON PAPER FULL SHEET SIZE 22X30 IN. / 55X75 CM.
BODY BAG SERIES: First the government made it impossible for then stuffed into the anonymity of body bags from this point on, which
photographers to submit pictures of dead Americans or returning could then be handled or dumped more casually or expeditiously sealed
caskets. They had learned from the Vietnam experience that the public in mass graves. Eventually, a sack of bones and flesh and guts increased
would only put up with so much of this horrendous reality. Eventually the anonymity and decreased the tenderness or any high regard for the
they found a way to disguise the dread of seeing mutilated Iraqis also deceased corpse. It was soon relegated to an unwanted status comparable
-by depositing them in body bags. Thousands of human remains were to offal and other waste.
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