No one knows with any precision how many of the people of Iraq have died because of the war,
and their faces are for the most part known only to their families and friends.  They too
are present in Unfinished Portrait, which includes an expanse of black surface that could
contain 375,000 portraits, if we had them. Between the lower and upper estimates of Iraq’s dead,
as published in academic studies, that number is closer to the lower.

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