Shell Shock and Awe Good Luck in Future Endeveavors
by Sally Edelstein
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Title
Shell Shock and Awe Good Luck in Future Endeveavors
Artist
Sally Edelstein
Medium
Mixed Media - Collage Appropriated Vintage Images
Description
In 2003 as the hopeful-faced US troops entered Iraq, I began work on this collage. By juxtaposing high school yearbook portraits with iconic images of the horrors of combat from WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, the collage narrates the full story of the devastation of war.
Appropriating Senior portraits from vintage high school and college yearbooks, it was clear that no matter the decade, the fresh eager faces filled with optimism were interchangeable. Each graduating teen’s future loomed ahead with possibilities. The real possibility that so many of these hopeful faces may have been lost to war seemed especially poignant.
In contrast to the reassuring announcements of dramatic American victories we heard at home were the searing images of death and horror we saw in Life Magazine and later in our own living rooms on TV.
The centerpiece image of the mother and son is an ad from 1939 before the U.S. entered WWII. The full-page advertisement ran in an issue of Woman's Home Companion, a mainstream woman's magazine. The contrasts between the usual vintage home goods advertising to women and a daring war protest ad was startling.
With its powerful image of a loving mother holding her tiny son, she asks the question whether she would be raising her only son to send him off to war. Confronted with war preparations of unparalleled scale and the casual talk of another inevitable war, the ad was an urgent call to women and mothers to unite against war.
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