Soldier: Jefferson – length of service unknown. Nine photographs of soldiers by Suzanne Opton which were due to be shown on billboards in St Paul Minnesota this week have been cancelled. Go to ArtDaily.com for the story and to this site for the images. The images may be compelling, powerful, even shocking in the simplicity of their affect, but have they crossed some invisible political line? Apparently so. Take the time to look.

Apparently these photographs are “out of context” in the (drive-by) public domain: “The reason we have advised you that we cannot post these as billboards is that out-of-context (neither in a museum setting or website) the images, as stand-alone highway or city billboards, appear to be deceased soldiers. The presentation in this manner could be perceived as being disrespectful to the men and women in our armed forces.”