The Independent made a courageous decision to stand out from its rivals on the day after the Royal Wedding by using not a photograph of the event, but a drawing by Tracey Emin. The artist is not known for her drawing so much as her installations, but the Indy splashed on the image anyway despite its obvious shortcomings.
Will this become a trend, I wondered. Will Tracey become an artist-in-residence for the newspaper, composing impressionistic works of art in response to every news event? Here is a top 5 of how The Independent might have observed momentous occasions over the last 100 years, from the recent expiry of a certain terrorist mastermind to the sinking of the Titanic.
The killing of Osama bin Laden
September 11, 2001
The Tiananmen Square massacre
The US capture of Iwo Jima
The sinking of the Titanic
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 4:48 pm |
What a monumental cock-up.
I do like the nonplussed expression on Bin Laden’s phizz.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 5:36 pm |
“We’ve got to have it now, Tracey. I don’t care if it isn’t finished, just send what you have…. Great, yes, it’s coming out of the fax now. Oh, Jesus.”