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Hockney Sees Images as Crucial to Arab Rebellion: Interview
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“If the Egyptian army had started shooting at the crowd in Tahrir Square,” says David Hockney, “it would have been hard to keep that secret because people had mobile phones. They could have described what was happening by text and sent a picture. That is, confirmation.”
Right now, we are seeing just such images of state violence in Libya.