March 27, 2003
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Nice Artwork
The image below was found by Marines in military headquarters in Nasariya.
NASIRIYA, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. Marines searching Iraqi military headquarters in this southern city that was the site of intensive fighting came across a mural depicting a plane crashing into a building complex resembling New York's twin towers, a news agency photograph showed Wednesday.The plane's logo and coloring resembled that of Iraqi Airlines, said Getty Images News Service executive Brian Felber, based in New York.
The photograph, showing two rifle-toting Marines in front of the mural, was shot by staff photographer Joe Raedle, who is accompanying the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force from Task Force Tarawa.
Getty is a news photo agency that distributes about 500 photographs from around the world each day and has 10 staff members embedded with U.S. forces in the Iraq conflict.
Felber said this photo was "causing a bit of a stir."
No kidding. I wonder if they hired Ted Rall to decorate their offices.
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"I wonder if they hired Ted Rall to decorate their offices."
Nah - the mural looks a little too sophisticated for Rall's standards of artistry.
Hire him? Surely he wouldn't charge for something like that, would he?
I was going to say, yes, that Ted Rall's work displays none of the basic draftsmanship and color use skills that the Iraqi mural - doubtless done by a competent artist - displays.
And then Shanti beat me to it. Curses.
Oddly enough, there's this mirror version of events, elsewhere in Iraq:
Inside Adam's Barber Shop [in Kifl] a painting dominates the room: a picture of the twin towers. It's not a trophy painting of the destroyed towers -- it's more like some glorification of them, right here in the middle of Iraq.
"It's certainly bizarre. That's the only word that can come up," said Col. Will Grimsley.
The link also has a photo of it.
Odd that the artist sees the WTC as a fairly modest apartment building. Is the true scale of the thing out of the realm of his imagination?
[Inside Adam's Barber Shop [in Kifl] a painting dominates the room: a picture of the twin towers. It's not a trophy painting of the destroyed towers -- it's more like some glorification of them, right here in the middle of Iraq.]
Did anyone else notice the palm tree in the lower right corner of the twin towers painting in Kifl? I'm sure it doesn't mean anything, but it's interesting nonetheless.
does anyone here know if there is anywhere else I can see Joe Raedle's war photographs??? My son is with the troops that he is embedded with. I tried getty's but the photo's aren't large enough to get a goos look at. Does he have another website somewhere??
thank you for any help
Sabrina Sidmore
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