Benjamin Lowy Photographs, 2003-2008

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Benjamin Lowy Photographs, 2003-2008

Benjamin Lowy Photographs, 2003-2008

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U.S.-born documentary photographer. The Benjamin Lowy Photographs collection dates from 2003-2008 and consists of thirty-two 9x13" color digital inkjet photographs, stemming from Lowy's work in Iraq, which document the U.S. military presence in Iraq. The prints are arranged in two subseries: Windows and Nightvision. The Windows subseries offers images taken from the bulletproof windows of the armored Humvees in which Lowy spent most of his time while on missions in Iraq; they depict street scenes with Iraqi civilians, tanks, soldiers, checkpoints, military impoundments, street life, urban Iraqi culture, and a war-ravaged Iraqi landscape. Photographs in the Nightvision subseries were taken through U.S. military-issue night vision goggles and reveal greenish images of late night raids, prisoners, soldiers, interactions between soldiers and prisoners, Iraqi landscapes, families, women, and street scenes. The images were published in , 2011. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University. Iraq | Perspectives

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