Oh Say, Can You See?
"Over the course of the last Presidential term, America has been beaten into a red, white and blue pulp‹not much unlike its impossibly dirty, tattered and abused flags which continue to dot both sides of the torn-down-the-middle political landscape."
Tattered is a contemporary documentary photo essay investigating the principle identity, misuse and desecration of the American flag in the context of the U.S. Flag Code. From Ground Zero to Iwo Jima to the surface of the moon, the American flag stands as the most ubiquitous, evocative, and complex symbol of America's selfimage. World events have recently led to a surge in public display‹and desecration of the flag, and redoubled interest in the nation's chaotic psychology. During the past three years, Seth Butler has traveled America to collect these mysterious monuments to our modern pathos.
9 February 2005 by Melissa Lyttle
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