RE: [-empyre-] Abu Ghraib and the image

["John Haber" <jhaber@haberarts.com>]

>>you have the authorship backwards.  I was the one who started the
thread with the abu ghraib comment.

Thanks!  It occurs to me, too, that it's even less likely than I conceded
that someone will resurrect the photographs as art:  unlike in the case of
past news photographs that have, inconsistently earned the photographer a
reputation, here the soldiers themselves did the photos, and someone I can't
see their artistic career advancing....   Also, great documentary
photographers of the past may have worked at a time when the status of
photography, period, wasn't always making it as art.  Now that the
boundaries are more fluid here, there's paradoxically less likelihood of
massive future revaluation, I bet.

John