The Hooded Jesus from Abu Ghraib

The Hooded Jesus from Abu Ghraib

W. J .T. Mitchell, the renown Author of “The Pictorial Turn” has written a brilliant semiotic review of the HBO documentary The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib.

“The Hooded Man reminds us of Jesus. A new kind of Jesus, admittedly, one whose tormented face is concealed from us, and whose poise at that moment was transformed by photography into an indelible icon of what a Christian nation accomplished in its crusade to liberate the Middle East”

W. J. T. Mitchell, The fog of Abu Ghraib: Errol Morris and the “bad apples”, In: Harper’s Magazine May 2008

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