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Attention servicemember

Title
Attention servicemember / Ben Brody.
Author
Brody, Ben
Publication
  • [Massachusetts] : Mass Books, [2020]
  • ©2020

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Additional Authors
Artman, Deborah
Description
304 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrated (some color); 24 cm
Summary
"Attention Servicemember is Ben Brody's searing elegy to the experience of the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Brody was a soldier assigned to make visual propaganda during the Iraq War. After leaving the army, he traveled to Afghanistan as an independent civilian journalist. Returning to rural New England after 12 years at war, he found his home unrecognizable--even his own backyard radiated menace and threat. So he continued photographing the war as it exists in his own mind. Inspired by military field manuals, Attention Servicemember invites viewers through an evolving and often wickedly funny creative process--some pictures are intimate snapshots, some are slick jingoistic propaganda, others are meditative and subtle tableaus. Writing from an intensely personal perspective, he also offers an insiders' view of the military, the media, and their contentious but symbiotic partnership. Anyone wondering how we wound up trusting serial liars and arguing about fake news should take a closer look at what was happening in Baghdad and Kabul during those years. With a darkly engaging design treatment by Kummer & Herrman, Attention Servicemember is a powerful passport to that world"--Publisher's website.
Subject
  • Brody, Ben
  • Since 2001
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Pictorial works
  • Afghan War, 2001-2021 > Pictorial works
  • Photojournalists > United States > Biography
  • Soldiers > United States > Biography
  • War photography
  • Photojournalists
  • Soldiers
  • Easthampton (Mass.) > Pictorial works
  • Iraq
  • Massachusetts > Easthampton
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Photobooks.
  • Pictorial works.
Note
  • "Time to reenlist. Contact us immediately. Failure to repond could result in discharge"--Cover.
  • "2003-2018: Easthampton, Massachusetts, United States; Kandahār, Afghanistan; Baghdad, Mayorality of Baghdad, Iraq"--Cover.
  • "Voluntary Separation Incentive (VSI) recipients must reenlist to continue receiving annual entitlements. Call toll free 1-877-533-7632 option 1"--Page 4 of cover.
  • Photography and text: Ben Brody ; text editing: Deborah Artman.
  • Illustration on lining papers.
Call Number
JQE 22-90
ISBN
  • 9780997216318
  • 099721631X
OCLC
1225907253
Author
Brody, Ben, author, photographer.
Title
Attention servicemember / Ben Brody.
Publisher
[Massachusetts] : Mass Books, [2020]
Copyright Date
©2020
Edition
Second edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Chronological Term
Since 2001
Added Author
Artman, Deborah, editor.
Research Call Number
JQE 22-90
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