Josh Azzarella is an artist, whose works include carefully edited photos of familiar political objects. Azzarella was one of several artists who were scheduled for the planned Dialectics of Terror exhibition at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City.
The exhibition was canceled on September 24, 2008, because of creative differences between the museum's director Dorothea Keaser, and the curator M
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"Untitled #23 (Lynndied)" was the famous shot of former army reservist Lyndie England as she stands over the bodies of tortured prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison; in Azarella's work the prisoners are gone and England stands in an empty hallway.FoxNews: New York Museum Cancels Terror Exhibition After Controversy (September 30, 2008)
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Other images include edited versions of the flag-raising at Iwo Jima without the soldiers, Lee Harvey Oswald without his rifle, and Robert F. Kennedy at the podium announcing Martin Luther King Jr.'s murder--but his mouth doesn't move.Village Voice: Josh Azzarella: Gone Missing (April 15, 2008)
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