Thursday, January 27, 2005

Forthcoming: More on the "Anti-American Nights"

The photos I have published so far in "Anti-American Nights: a Photo Essay" do not tell the whole story of the Parisian "American Nights". It should be noted that some of the most rabid grafittis scrawled on the walls of the town hall were put there by a small group of American expatriate - let's say - "activists". On first glance, this fact might seem to represent a mitigating circumstance with respect to the responsibility of the mayor's office in the orgy of anti-Americanism that the "American nights" quickly became. Tomorrow I will publish an update to "Anti-American Nights", including some additional photos. As we will see, on closer inspection the "contributions" of the American "activists" only make the responsibility of the mayor's office in the affair all the more grave.