Date of Review:

01/11/2007

Published Work:

Reviewer:

Reyhan Harmanci

Source:

The San Francisco Chronicle

Review Excerpt:

Like Stanley Milgram's infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, in which college boys transformed themselves into warring prisoners and wardens with breathtaking speed, Fein's photographs speak to the darker impulses of human nature, the power of context in determining behavior. There's a lot of evidence that the Abu Ghraib soldiers were filling roles designed for them by their superiors.

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