The retelling fifa coins of history and all its subjective twists andturns, is portrayed in equally discombobulated fashion through Broomberg and http://www.goldstarkr.com/ Chanarin's reimagining of the ancient text, withimages of pinups and corpses interspersed incongruously with familysnapshots of Halloween night and circus acts. It is as mindboggling as a literal reading of the Bible might be or, perhaps,belief in one-sided monologues of what modern warfareis.
"Why shy away from these images? asks Chanarin, speaking abouta few particular gruesome ones Wired.co.uk pointed out, includingwhat looks like the dismembered head of a suicide bomber sitting,bloodied on the street. "They exist even if we don't like to lookat them. The artist Thomas Hirschhorn has argued that images ofdestroyed bodies need to be looked at. It is our duty to look atthem. We see the inclusion of these types of images in our Bible asan antidote to the way in which mainstream media is horriblycontrolled and sanitised.
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