Suzanne Opton - Soldier, Many Wars - Hardcover

Jones, Ann; Prodger, Phillip

9780983394204: Suzanne Opton - Soldier, Many Wars

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0983394202 ISBN 13: 9780983394204

Publisher: Decode Incorporated, 2011

In the two series collected in this volume, "Soldier"and "Many Wars," photographer Suzanne Opton (born 1954) photographs a range of American soldiers close up, with their heads resting on tabletops, and American veterans draped in cloth blankets. The subjects of the "Soldier" series are all young, active-duty soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and the photographs were presented as billboards in nine American cities from 2008 through 2010. Reviewing them for "The New York Times," photography critic Vince Aletti wrote: "The posture is vulnerable and startlingly intimate, as if these young men and women were facing someone in bed or on a stretcher... Opton catches soldiers both on guard and off, looking out and inward simultaneously, and we can only imagine what they're thinking, what they've done, and what they dread." The project received extensive press coverage and even sparked a heated debate about America's image of the military. The "Many Wars" series presents portraits of veterans from American wars over the past 70 years. Through interviews by the photographer, we learn how the wars have affected their lives. Both bodies of work were selected by Martin Paar for the Brighton Photo Biennial in 2010.

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About the Author:

Phillip Prodger is the Lisette Model/Joseph G. Blum Fellow in history of photography at the National Gallery of Canada. He received a Ph.D. in history of art from the University of Cambridge, a Master's from Stanford University and a B.A. from Williams College. The author of many articles, he is editor of "Impressionist Camera: Pictorial Photography in Europe 1888-1918", and author of "Time Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement". His book "Darwin's Camera" will be published in 2007.

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