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Art in the Face of Radical Evil **

Art in the Face of Radical Evil ** Art in the Face of Radical Evil* THIERRY DE DUVE An object that tells of loss, destruction, disappearance of objects. Does not speak of itself. Tells of others. Will it include them? —Jasper Johns1 First, the photos, without interpretation or commentary. Second, the facts. Every summer, the city of Arles, in the south of France, hosts an important photography festival entitled Les Rencontres photographiques d’Arles, with dozens of exhibitions scattered around town. In 1997, the event was placed under the artistic direction of Christian Caujolle, the co-founder and art director of the French photo agency Vu and a former chief pictures editor at Libération. Among several other exhibitions, Caujolle curated one entitled S-21, composed of one hundred portraits or identity photographs (I don’t quite know what to call them) of victims of the Cambodian genocide. S-21 is the name of a former high school in the borough of Tuol Sleng, in Phnom Penh, which Pol Pot turned into a torture center and extermination camp. Between 1975 and 1979, 14,200 people were brutally executed at S-21, either on the premises or in a field nearby. There are seven survivors. For the sake of the regime’s police and bureaucracy, every http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png October MIT Press

Art in the Face of Radical Evil **

October , Volume Summer 2008 (125) – Jul 1, 2008

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MIT Press
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© 2008 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ISSN
0162-2870
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1536-013X
DOI
10.1162/octo.2008.125.1.3
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Art in the Face of Radical Evil* THIERRY DE DUVE An object that tells of loss, destruction, disappearance of objects. Does not speak of itself. Tells of others. Will it include them? —Jasper Johns1 First, the photos, without interpretation or commentary. Second, the facts. Every summer, the city of Arles, in the south of France, hosts an important photography festival entitled Les Rencontres photographiques d’Arles, with dozens of exhibitions scattered around town. In 1997, the event was placed under the artistic direction of Christian Caujolle, the co-founder and art director of the French photo agency Vu and a former chief pictures editor at Libération. Among several other exhibitions, Caujolle curated one entitled S-21, composed of one hundred portraits or identity photographs (I don’t quite know what to call them) of victims of the Cambodian genocide. S-21 is the name of a former high school in the borough of Tuol Sleng, in Phnom Penh, which Pol Pot turned into a torture center and extermination camp. Between 1975 and 1979, 14,200 people were brutally executed at S-21, either on the premises or in a field nearby. There are seven survivors. For the sake of the regime’s police and bureaucracy, every

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