Bush, Cheney Mug Shots In NY Library Exhibit

Nora Ligorano - Marshall Reese Exhibit
New York Public Library

We found this little snippet in the pages of the New York Post

December 1, 2007 -- The New York Public Library is under fire for showing photos of Bush officials doctored to look like police mug shots.

The pictures, by artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese, are part of an exhibit privately financed at the library, which receives public funding.

GOP spokesman Matthew Walter called it a "political attack."
The library said the exhibit has no political agenda.

Nora Ligorano - Marshall Reese Exhibit
New York Public Library

From New York Public Library Online:

Nora Ligorano (American, born 1956) and
Marshall Reese (American, born 1955)
Line Up
Portfolio of eight digital prints with colophon and DVD
Brooklyn: Madness of Art Editions, 2006
Harper #4

For more than twenty years, Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese have used art to address political and social issues. In Line Up, present and former high-ranking government officials, including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, and Karl Rove (Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz are not on view here), appear in a series of fake mug shots. They hold slates inscribed with numbers that refer to specific dates when the “suspects” made “incriminatory” statements about Iraq. President Bush in his State of the Union address on January 28, 2003, reported, “Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa…. He clearly has much to hide.” On January 25, 2002, Alberto Gonzales reported to President Bush, “[t]his new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva’s strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.” In an accompanying DVD, these and other officials are heard making their assertions; the pop of a flashbulb is then followed by the mug shot of the speaker, growing progressively larger until it more than fills the screen. The screen goes dark, and a metallic clunk, presumably the sound of a prison door slamming shut, ends each sequence.

From the New York Post article:

The library said the exhibit has no political agenda.

From the Library's website:

For more than twenty years, Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese have used art to address political and social issues.

No political agenda?

Denial is more than just a river in Egypt.

By LBG
Source - New York Post
Source - New York Public Library Online



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