| #1531779 in Books | Fantagraphics | 2013-10-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.80 x11.40l,1.99 | File type: PDF | 176 pages | ||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Art from inside Gitmo|By James D. Crabtree|Ms. Hamlin has been visiting Guantanamo Bay since 2006, documenting the most unique detention center ever created. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks it was necessary to hold certain enemy combatants from the Global War on Terror but to hold them where the intelligence value of what they knew would not be compromised by legal nicetie||Grounded in the academic tradition, [Hamlin's] drawings are not loud or cloaked in style, but instead harbour a permanence and authority based on the humble ability of a drawing to communicate. They do not presume or indoctrinate, but gently reveal through her
The U.S. government does not allow photographs of the military trials at Guantanamo, but in 2006, Janet Hamlin went to Guantanamo as a courtroom sketch artist ― the only one covering these trials ― and this book collects her most potent and revealing sketches, as well as chronicles her experiences there.
Camp X-Ray in the U.S. military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, opened in January, 2002 in the wake of the 9-11 attacks to house alleged terrorists...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006-2013 | Janet Hamlin. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
