My neck is thinner than a hair, 1996/2004




Title: My neck is thinner than a hair
Attributed date: 2001
Attributed to: The Atlas Group
Production date: 2004

My neck is thinner than a hair is a research project by The Atlas Group about the uses of 3641 car bombs in the 1975-1990 Lebanese wars. 

​The only part that remains intact after a car bomb explodes is the engine. Landing on balconies, roofs or adjacent streets, the engine is projected tens and sometimes hundreds of meters away from the original site of the bomb. During the wars, photojournalists competed to be the first to find and photograph the engines.

The following are 49 of the 100s of photographs produced by photojournalists and found by Walid Raad in the archives of An-Nahar Research Center (Beirut, Lebanon) and The Arab Documentation Center (Beirut, Lebanon).

My neck is thinner than a hair_Engines (2 July 1988). 1996/2001, pigmented inkjet print, 24 x 34 cm
My neck is thinner than a hair_Engines (4 March 1982). 1996/2001, pigmented inkjet print, 24 x 34 cm
My neck is thinner than a hair_Engines (8 March 1986). 1996/2001, pigmented inkjet print, 24 x 34 cm
My neck is thinner than a hair_Engines (9 May 1987). 1996/2001, pigmented inkjet print, 24 x 34 cm
My neck is thinner than a hair_Engines (10 January 1985). 1996/2001, pigmented inkjet print, 24 x 34 cm
My neck is thinner than a hair_Engines (11 December 1981). 1996/2001, pigmented inkjet print, 24 x 34 cm
My neck is thinner than a hair_Engines (11 November 1980). 1996/2001, pigmented inkjet print, 24 x 34 cm
My neck is thinner than a hair_Engines (12 April 1987). 1996/2001, pigmented inkjet print, 24 x 34 cm
My neck is thinner than a hair_Engines (12 December 1984). 1996/2001, pigmented inkjet print, 24 x 34 cm
My neck is thinner than a hair_Engines (23 May 1990). 1996/2001, pigmented inkjet print, 24 x 34 cm

My neck is thinner than a hair_Engines. 1996/2001, pigmented inkjet prints, 24 x 34 cm each