A Marine’s Disposable War

The numbered diagram and links below show how the photographs connect. Choose a linked title to explore that photograph.

• 1. Close double portrait↔9. Covered Position / Vehicle

  Made beneath the covered Humvee position shown more fully in Covered Position / Vehicle.

• 1. Close double portrait↔4. Group at Industrial / Power Plant

  The close double portrait, the group photograph and Covered Position / Vehicle were made within the same small covered area at the power-plant position.

• 4. Group at Industrial / Power Plant↔9. Covered Position / Vehicle

  Covered Position / Vehicle shows the shelter, vehicles and living area only a short distance from this group.

• 9. Covered Position / Vehicle↔10. Power Plant / Industrial Structure

  Power Plant / Industrial Structure was made after Bass stepped out from beneath this shelter and aimed upward; the shelter's concrete roof crosses the lower-left part of that photograph.

• 10. Power Plant / Industrial Structure↔12. Foreign Armor I

  The plant's smokestacks appear on the distant horizon in Foreign Armor I, photographed across the Euphrates.

• 2. Saddam Mural / Barracks↔12. Foreign Armor I

  Bass recalls that Foreign Armor I and the related Foreign Armor II photograph were made at the same compound.

• 2. Saddam Mural / Barracks↔10. Power Plant / Industrial Structure

  Bass places the mural compound across the Euphrates from Al-Mussaib Thermal Power Plant.

• 5. No Door / Blue Work Truck↔8. Hallway / Resting Marines

  The hallway occupied the small gate building at the entrance to the inner bunker compound. The concrete pillar opposite it was the one used to remove the Kia Bongo's door.

• 6. Marines on Armored Vehicle↔7. Shooting AK / Rubble

  The debris-filled yard belongs to the weapons-manufacturing complex also seen in Shooting AK / Rubble, the blue Kia Bongo photographs, the bunker photographs and Spent.

• 7. Shooting AK / Rubble↔14. Ammunition Bunker Interior

  Shooting AK / Rubble shows Bass standing on debris associated with the other bunker that was destroyed.

• 13. Ammunition Containers / Ordnance↔14. Ammunition Bunker Interior

  Ammunition Bunker Interior shows stacked containers inside one of the fortified bunkers in the same complex.

• 13. Ammunition Containers / Ordnance↔15. Spent

  Spent expands the material scale from individual cartridges and containers to a field of discarded artillery propellant cases.

• 14. Ammunition Bunker Interior↔15. Spent

  Ammunition Containers / Ordnance, Ammunition Bunker Interior and Spent place contained ammunition, bunker storage and discarded propellant cases in visual dialogue.