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War/Photography at Brooklyn Museum

12/12/2013

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Light airs. Crisp and cool. Gibbous moon.
Today Fran and I visited the Brooklyn Museum to see the extraordinary exhibit War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath. The images cover conflicts spanning two centuries and six continents. It includes not only iconic photos such as raising the flag over Iwo Jima, but also the brutality and humanity of war. I'm currently developing a feature documentary called "The Riddle of War" which seeks to answer the question: why?  Why do we humans--remarkable social animals with extraordinary intelligence--deliberately and systematically kill other members of our own species?  Is war an immutable legacy of our primitive origins?   Or is it a learned behavior, fostered by misguided societies, and therefore capable of change?  This exhibit offered many potential visuals for the film.
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