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Members of the Iraqi Workers' Union face off against bayoneted U.S. soldiers during a protest against unemployment

Members of the Iraqi Workers' Union face off against bayoneted U.S. soldiers during a protest against unemployment
Members of the Iraqi Workers' Union face off against bayoneted U.S. soldiers during a protest against unemployment
Members of the Iraqi Workers' Union face off against bayoneted U.S. soldiers during a protest against unemployment
ArtistAmerican, born 1961
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Members of the Iraqi Workers' Union face off against bayoneted U.S. soldiers during a protest against unemployment
  • from the series Night of a Thousand Stars
Date2006
Place depictedIraq, Middle East, Asia
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsSheet: 13 × 19 in. (33 × 48.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Joy of Giving Something, Inc.
Object number2025.135.50
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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceJoy of Giving Something, Inc.; given to MFAH, 2025.
Published References Smith, Joel Preston. Night of a Thousand Stars & Other Portraits of Iraq. Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2006.

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Joel Preston Smith
An Iraqi policeman, who says he was tortured by Hussein's forces, stops traffic after an attack against U.S. soldiers, Ar
Ramadi
2006
Inkjet print
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Inkjet print
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Inkjet print
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Inkjet print
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Inkjet print
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Inkjet print
2025.135.23
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Joel Preston Smith
A U.S. soldier with the Lost Platoon, 124th Infantry Regiment, checks out his "high and tight" haircut
2006
Inkjet print
2025.135.9
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A U.S. soldier swims the south fork of the Euphrates River, Ar Ramadi
2006
Inkjet print
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Detail of a poster warning against unexploded munitions, Baghdad
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Inkjet print
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2006
Inkjet print
2025.135.40
Boys at a feast commemmorating 2,900 Shia Muslims buried in a mass grave after a 1991 uprising against Hussein
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Boys at a feast commemmorating 2,900 Shia Muslims buried in a mass grave after a 1991 uprising against Hussein
2006
Inkjet print
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Iraqi newspaper listing the names of the dead, mass grave, Mahaweel
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Iraqi newspaper listing the names of the dead, mass grave, Mahaweel
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Inkjet print
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