The eerie, green views created by night vision cameras tracking targets as they were hit by guided missiles provided disturbingly beautiful scenes, like fireworks on the 4th of July, all in a single color. The military actions of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, to which I was opposed, repelled me, while at the same time I found the images fascinating. How could mass destruction and violence somehow appear mysteriously gorgeous, and coldly distant.
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The Shadow, 2007
X-Ray, 2008
Leg Man, 2003
Yellow, 2006
Sleep, 2007
Single File, 2006
Red Street, 2006
Blast, 2003
dennis reed photography
Arms Left / Arms Right, 2005
War Series (right wall)
Allegory for the Present: Merwin Belin & Dennis Reed, Los Angeles Harbor College Art Gallery, 2016
Yellow, 2006, private collection
The Shadow, 2007, collection of Diana Zlotnick, Studio City
X-Ray, 2008, collection of Diana Zlotnick, Studio City
Saddam, 2003
war
selected images