The level of authenticity required to invoke a visceral response is somewhat similar here. These boots aren't really the boots of the people who died. But they "represent" those deaths. Who will buy the representation? Wouldn't that audience just as well respond to the pure number of dead? Probably not. A certain chill comes with viewing the empty shoes, even though this could just as well be a picture of a shoe-store without the sign.
posted by dan @ 2/25/2005 10:01:00 AM
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