AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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The Romance of War

Silver Print, re-photographed woodcut, silk-screen on plexiglas, 1990, 22 1/4 x 70 1/4

Images from Left to Right:

Half-tracks move up while allied artillery blast German positions to smoldering ruins

A Young commando resigned to the fate assigned him by the rules of war

A P-47 narrowly eludes the inferno of its own devestatingly accurate bombs

These images are based on photos from the Battle of the Bulge. The center panel shows a young German solider about to be executed for his part in a famous subterfuge, in which he and several other German soliders dressed in American uniforms to infilitrate behind the allied lines. Dressing in the uniform of the enemy is a war crime punishable by execution. I have seen film footage of the event. The young solider ends his life with a defiant salute to Hitler and Germany.

The captions to these photos are my own, meant as ironic mimicry of the kinds of captions often seen in patriotic books of war photos.