Steve Mumford drawing in Tikrit, Iraq on Friday, October 3, 2003, with the 4th Infantry Division, Task Force Omaha, who are blowing up Iraqi surface to air missiles.
For those of you who like reading about art as well as looking at it, take a look at two new outstanding and thought-provoking essays which are up on the Saatchi Online magazine as of today. Jason Oddy, who is a photographer represented by The Photographer's Gallery in London, writes about artists and photographers whose work has depicted wars ranging from Roger Fenton's photographs of the Crimean War through to Steve Mumford's drawing and paintings of Iraq made while being embedded within the US military.
Click here to read his essay in full.
Vik Muniz, 'Action Photo (After Hans Namuth)', 1997, 60 x 48 inches
James Elkins, who is currently E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in his essay entitled 'The Most Interesting Thing that Can be Done With Representation', champions the work of Vik Muniz (which he likens to the tricks of magician Ricky Jay), and offers the beginnings of 'a viable theory of the contemporary state of illusion'.
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