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This article appeared in the April 24, 2006 edition of The Nation.

April 6, 2006

PHOTO NATION DEBUT

Harpswell, Me.

The photographs by Eugene Richards prove the old adage that a picture is worth 1,000 words ["War Is Personal," March 27]. His poignant text, in under 1,000 words, served to heighten the impact of his soul-searing photographs. These few photos jarred me as no bombed-out car or rows of sheet-draped bodies in Iraq could. Too bad the mainstream media don't show more of the 16,000 wounded as they confront their "almost dead" bodies. That kind of photojournalism gets our attention and perhaps would quicken the return of more whole troops!

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About Kim Phillips-Fein

Kim Phillips-Fein is an assistant professor at the Gallatin School of New York University. Her first book, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement From the New Deal to Reagan, is forthcoming from Norton in 2009. more...
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