Abu Ghraib’s visual record functions as a haunting iconography distinct from prior war imagery

Evidence

At Abu Ghraib, we have very different images, of the hooded figure connected to electrical wires, the naked man on a dog leash held by a female soldier who smiles for the camera, the naked piles of bodies, and the other bodies, some alive, some dead. These are the images that haunt us today, a decade later. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 743

Categorization

• XREF: The photographic torture record parallels the visual-iconography function the reader’s own thesis draws from medieval art — images that carry ideology forward across time.