NEW YORK.- The International Center of Photography presents Inconvenient Evidence: Iraqi Prison Photographs from Abu Ghraib, through November 28, 2004. As a result, issues of ethics, law, politics, leadership responsibility, the use of torture, and the role of electronic media have become even more immediate. These concerns, as well as the place of photography in documenting or constructing truth, must be reconsidered. This is an opportunity to reflect on Susan Sontag’s contention that “the photographs are us,” and to question if in fact “the horror of what is shown in the photographs cannot be separated from the horror that the photographs were taken.” A brochure with a text by Seymour Hersh will accompany the exhibition. Inconvenient Evidence: Iraqi Prison Photographs from Abu Ghraib is organized ICP Chief Curator, Brian Wallis.

 

In conjunction with the exhibition, there will be a major symposium held in conjunction with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School Auditorium in October. Panel participants will include Seymour Hersh, Luc Sante, David Levi Strauss, and Brian Wallis. This exhibition was co-organized by the International Center of Photography and The Andy Warhol Museum. It was made possible with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.