Richard Mosse - Saddam's Palaces (32 pics)

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Vast, self-indulgent halls of columned marble and extravagant chandeliers, surrounded by pools, walls, moats, and, beyond that, empty desert, suddenly look more like college dormitories. Weight sets, flags, partition walls, sofas, basketball hoops, and even posters of bikini'd women have been imported to fill Saddam's spatial residuum. The effect is oddly decorative, as if someone has simply moved in for a long weekend, unpacking an assortment of mundane possessions.

The effect is like an ironic form of camouflage, making the perilously foreign seem all the more familiar and habitable—a kind of military twist on postmodern interior design.



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№1 Author: tapatio (3 Oct 2009 02:30) Total user comments: 2047


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wao....it need a nice clean and a few plants and it`s ready for the next sadam.....................
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№2 Author: adzhoe (9 May 2010 01:10) Total user comments: 15109


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awful how he could keep all that wealth to himself while his country suffered
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№3 Author: shafty37 (4 Jul 2010 21:25) Total user comments: 267


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is called being a dictataor adzhoe. no-ne matters but yourself.
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№4 Author: shewentwhoa (24 Jul 2010 08:40) Total user comments: 1330


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wow thses huge
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№5 Author: amerJD (1 Nov 2010 00:17) Total user comments: 1400


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