In country : soldiers' stories from Iraq and Afghanistan

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Label

In country : soldiers' stories from Iraq and Afghanistan

Title remainder

soldiers' stories from Iraq and Afghanistan

Statement of responsibility

Jennifer Karady

Title variation

Soldiers' stories from Iraq and Afghanistan

Creator

• Karady, Jennifer, 1967-

Contributor

• McCusker, Carol
• SF Camerawork
• Mobley, Chuck

Photographer

• Karady, Jennifer, 1967-

Writer of introduction

• Mobley, Chuck

Subject

• Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, American
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Pictorial works
• Karady, Jennifer, 1967-
• United States -- Armed Forces -- Afghanistan -- Pictorial works
• United States -- Armed Forces -- Iraq -- Pictorial works
• Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American
• Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Pictorial works

Genre

• Personal narratives, American
• Pictorial works

Language

eng

Summary

Over the last four years Jennifer Karady has turned the focus of her art practice toward staging photographs of a significant memory from individual veterans' experience in relation to how that memory manifests itself in their civilian life. In creating these photographs, Karady actively engages with these veterans, both as collaborators and subjects. After extensive interviews and a lengthy planning process, each veteran reenacts the chosen memory, in uniform, often surrounded by family and friends and within her or his everyday environment. Karady's pragmatic approach to difficult subject matter shines through in her project's rigorous conceptualization and egalitarian execution. As staged, completely analog photographs rich with allegory and symbolism, these veterans shared memories, recalled and revealed in collaboration with Karady carry with them the stories of their subjects. The veterans' recollections, derived from interviews conducted by the artist, are included alongside the photographs. Currently a work-in-progress, Karady hopes to eventually complete this project with 25 photographs of veterans from around the country

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

956.7044/3420922

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

DS79.762

LC item number

.K37 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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