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A Gulf
Paul Dean
1991
edition of 500
"A Gulf" was inspired by media coverage of the Persian Gulf War, but more specifically by the reporting of that war by "The News-Leader" (Springfield, Missouri), my primary news source at the time. Among the features in that paper during the frenzy of war coverage was a column dedicated to explaining the war to children. My outrage led to me to create a series of collages using only "The News-Leader's" war issues as source material. I edited these down to the pages of this book, which is relatively tiny to suggest the small-mindedness of this coverage and the distance, the gulf, between the reality of the war and the newspaper's lopsided simplification of it. "A Gulf" came from a desperate need deep inside me to say something, rather than nothing, in the face of a tragedy in which I, as an American, like it or not, was a participant.
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