Portraits of the American Dead

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ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHS

These pictures were taken unknowingly, over the last several years, while driving or while standing beside a street or road. The pictures as presented here isolate small, but significant, aspects of the pictures as originally taken.The people pictured in them are in moving cars, either driving or riding, and are unaware, or at most dimly cognizant of the fact that they are being photographed. They are doing something most Americans do at some point during most days of their lives. They are engaged in a central act in the celebration and enjoyment of the American Way of Life that we are currently being exhorted to defend at any cost.
This work is tentatively titled Portraits of the American Dead. They are not pictures of dead soldiers, as one might assume, they are all pictures of the living. They represent the death in life that is one of the fruits of American Empire. Our reward for taking for ourselves the riches of the world is to be condemned to gaze out fearfully as we hurtle madly past each other in shadowy glass and metal boxes.

—alan p hayes

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