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Campaign '08 Photo January 22, 2008

King Day Final

Does it seem more like a candidate in front of a background, or does the M.L. King/Barack Obama juxtaposition take on a life of its own?

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Campaign '08 Photo January 20, 2008

Your Turn: Hallowed Be Thy Name

What's your take on Huck's campaign practice, applying his John Hancock to the good book?

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Bush Focus Photo

Turn! Turn!

With the economy tanking, Bush's photo op has to do with hyping small business tax cuts.  Here are a few takes...

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Scaring Up An Analogy?

Given what looks like a swastika, it's hard not to compare the threat of al Qaeda and the Taliban with the Nazis.

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BAGannouncements Photo January 19, 2008

State Of The BAG

Because it's been four years since this site trained its focus to analyze political imagery (during the '04 election) and also because I've been doing an awful lot of experimenting over the past month or two in both approach and format, it seemed like a good time to check...

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Campaign '08 Photo

Campaign 08: Running The Race Card Straight Through The Bedroom

Now that the campaign has shaped up a bit, what is coming through is a distinct trend, on the part of the media, to accentuate and even agitate for gender and racial tension.

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Race Focus Photo January 18, 2008

Panic In Waukegan

While the immigration issue has devolved into little more than a political fanning of the ideological fires, this image speaks to the rising emotional fallout.

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Originals Photo

A Swipe At Community Organizing

In the furor ignited by BET President Robert Johnson, what is overlooked  is the intimation that "community organizing" is somehow an inferior activity.  In response, The BAG offers you an excerpt from a photo-narrative by Chicago-based photojournalist Jon Lowenstein, entitled "The South Side."

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Business Focus Photo January 17, 2008

The Latest Invasion

Isn't it strange that The Economist would use a military analogy to illustrate the bailout of major U.S. financial institutions by foreign governments -- particularly by countries in the Persian Gulf?

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Campaign '08 Photo January 16, 2008

Hill Force One (Or: The Spense Is Just Killing Me)

On first pass, it seems very compelling, refreshing, creative, even, that Hillary would present herself to the media in the role of a flight attendant.

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Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo January 15, 2008

Now Diyala

Typical of the home raid photos that were so prevalent in 2004-5, the ongoing hostilities north of Baghdad offer "more of the same" for a country experiencing basically the same rate of chaos as the year before last....  Why this pic trumps the others is because of how intensely...

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Originals Photo

The Forgotten Iraqi Exiles

Rather than photographing hundreds of Iraqi refugees to illustrate the epic size of the exodus, I want to follow, for an extended period and in an intimate way, just a few - I want to take the journey with them, to live the aftermath of war with them, and...

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Campaign '08 Photo January 14, 2008

Coated Layer Of Grace

Even among voices that have been extremely even-handed over the past week or so, there has been a lot of disappointment around the 'sphere regarding the anti-Obama remarks issued yesterday by BET President and Clinton surrogate, Robert Johnson.  What I haven't heard discussed, however, were the visual trappings surrounding...

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Bush Focus Photo

Murdering And Swashbuckling

The New York Times found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one, after their return from war.  In many of those cases, combat trauma and the stress of deployment — along with alcohol abuse, family discord...

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Campaign '08 Photo January 13, 2008

Opening The Black-Pink Divide

What the practitioners of wedge politics -- in collusion with a media hungry for conflict, fear and negativity -- are currently fixing in place, is a black-pink divide.

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Protest Focus Photo January 11, 2008

Gitmo Sixth Anniversary/Bringing Suits

Witness Against Torture: A Campaign To Shut Down Guantanamo (Non-violent direct action campaign) Guantanamo: A Look Back at Six Years of Imprisonment, Torture and Suicide (Democracy Now) Six Years Of Guantánamo: Enough Is Enough (Andy Worthington -- author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in...

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Your Turn: Those Cards At The Economist

Between the faces, suits, colors, order, layering, spacing, orientation, scale, movement on the cover of the new Economist, what is the message about the U.S. election?

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Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? Is Anybody Looking At Condi?

prepares to sit down, she is confronted -- in a stark act of protest theatre -- by a member of the group Code Pink.  I thought Iraq, too, at least up till December 27th, when Benazir Bhutto was assassinated.

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