Documenting US soldiers funerals
This is amazing.
A beautiful and touching collection of photos of American soldiers' funerals narrated by the photographer, Paul Fusco. The whole ban on images of dead US troops, funerals and body bags
is absolutely sickening and just another terrible facet of this illegal invasion and occupation.
On frame number 24 Fusco talks of how the families never objected to his prescence. To me this says it all. The message he repeats is 'no glory'. He says in #31 how the families cringe when given the flag, "Given a rag...for their husbands life"
Go watch it. It's made me think again about trawling the net for porn when stuff like this is out there.Theres also a deadly essay called Ghost Town about Hurricane Katrina, highlights include 11 where Sean Penn has a gun and 15. The whole thing drives home the horrible absurbity of the situation; white soldiers talking to the black dudes like they're both from different countries and troops pointing out good photo ops of 3 day old corpses instead of removing them.
http://www.magnuminmotion.com/bitterfruit/player.html
A beautiful and touching collection of photos of American soldiers' funerals narrated by the photographer, Paul Fusco. The whole ban on images of dead US troops, funerals and body bags
is absolutely sickening and just another terrible facet of this illegal invasion and occupation.
On frame number 24 Fusco talks of how the families never objected to his prescence. To me this says it all. The message he repeats is 'no glory'. He says in #31 how the families cringe when given the flag, "Given a rag...for their husbands life"
Go watch it. It's made me think again about trawling the net for porn when stuff like this is out there.Theres also a deadly essay called Ghost Town about Hurricane Katrina, highlights include 11 where Sean Penn has a gun and 15. The whole thing drives home the horrible absurbity of the situation; white soldiers talking to the black dudes like they're both from different countries and troops pointing out good photo ops of 3 day old corpses instead of removing them.
http://www.magnuminmotion.com/bitterfruit/player.html
