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Article: Embedded artist: with a suite of watercolor and ink drawings and a series of on-line dispatches, New York painter Steve Mumford chronicles military and civilian life in U.S.-occupied Iraq.(Reportage)
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- Art in America
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- February 1, 2004
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From Oct. 23 to Nov. 22, 2003, at Postmasters Gallery in New York: Steve Mumford exhibited 43 watercolor and sepia drawings, roughly one-quarter of the number he produced between April and October in the course of two trips to Iraq. Mumford visited Basra, Baghdad, Tikrit, Samarra, Karbala, Kirkuk, Dohuk and Hilla, traveling between the cities as an embedded journalist credentialed by Artnet.com, the on-line magazine whose reporters typically brave nothing more perilous than an overcrowded Venice Biennale vernissage. On Aug. 18, Mumford posted on Artnet.com the first of what would be six installments of "Baghdad Journal," a diaristic account of his time in Iraq, the margins ...