Justice? // Jan 05, 2010 // Comments [1]
I created this image with the following lyrics from Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" in mind...
"Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up,
and Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he
sat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the
twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows
and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.
And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry,
'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American
blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it..."
Which reminds me: you can't always believe what you see. This court room looked nothing like that.
The dog & 'judge' were shot in my studio. But we all know that about art & advertising photography.
News photos, the domain of the disappearing photojournalist, should have none of this. The battle
over the truth of what we see is as old as photography itself. For a great discussion on the subject,
grab a 'cup o' sumthin' and read this from my favorite little hometown paper... NYTimes Blog
It is a great look into the world of a 21st century war photographer.
Be sure to get part 2 also...



