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Detail from Dead Troops Talk (A vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986) 1992 |
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'The young boy, whose head is blown open and has lost his hands, is in a way the
central figure, and he is saying something that he feels is urgent to the older captain but
because the captain’s dead too, he's also moved into another dimension, one in which he doesn't
have to answer. There's no urgency – he's contemplating this boy's questioning nature, or
contemplating the urgency itself, who knows.' - Jeff Wall
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