6. THE iPOD / ABU GHRAIB PHOTOS*

electrocution,
originally uploaded by Art or Idiocy?.

The designer took two very easily recognizable images - the first is from the iPod ad campaign with dark silhouetted figure and contrasting white headphone wires, and the second is the famous prison abuse photo in which a hooded person balances on a box with his arms wired to receive electric shocks - and created a new picture, with the torture victim in silhouette and electrocution wires in iPod white. It's brilliant: now I can't look at the iPod ad and not think about the war in Iraq - or, for that matter, imagine private corporations without thinking of their global impact. Here's a link to the artist's site containing the composite images: iPod -Ghraib