Nina Berman & Alan Chin: Waiting For Beck
Waiting for Glenn Beck in Wilmington, Ohio, where he performs "America's First Christmas" Wednesday. But most people are more worried about survival.
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Palin: The Presidential Study
For my money, this photo previews and ushers a strategic shift in how Palin plans to present herself to the public as 2012 comes into view.
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Brenda Ann Kenneally: Troy, New York – An American Community
BagNewsSalon is pleased to offer this exclusive audio slideshow interview featuring Brenda Ann Kenneally, and a look at a small town America that we rarely see in the traditional media. Her photographs detail the dispiriting circumstances that cycle through generations of young women, a destiny that may have included...
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Monuments Deflated: Civilization in Decline?
It doesn’t take long at all for any modern building, city, or society to look rundown, past its best days, trapped now into cycles of decline. All that is needed is enough denial or inattention. Against those tendencies, these photographs suggest how close the present can be...
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Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Dark Lord Down
Antrim Caskey's Mountaintop Mining Watch series #5: Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy is out. Their Upper Big Branch mine exploded earlier this year, killing 29.
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Support the Bag! Donate and Win! Party with us in New York!
As a holiday fundraiser for our non-for-profit mission -- and to help pay for our makeover and all our good works -- we are kicking off a holiday raffle. Here's how it works.
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Palin Does Haiti Cholera: How's My Hair? (Or is it AP Split Ends?)
If I find the fantastically clever Sarah Palin one of the shallowest and blatantly self-serving politicians, err, political celebrities I've ever seen, it doesn't stop me from taking pause upon seeing these AP shots from Franklin Graham's cholera treatment center in Haiti.
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Return of the Big Dawg
Touted as a major Friday afternoon White House PR surprise aimed at pulling wavering Dems into the fold on "the great GOP Tax fold/compromise," did Clinton provide any new argument or "substantive anything" to validate his presence in the WH Press Room?
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And in the Heart of the Fashion District on the Way to the Theatre, No Less!
Every other day, the have-nots know enough to respect the boundaries of the aristocracy, bound to the born fact of class separation.
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Hatch: You Can Stand There In Front of the Gizmo, But Your Kid Who Grew Up Here Can't Go To College
With the President's tax deal leaving DADT, the Dream Act and START to slowly twist in the wind, Stephen Crowley of the NYT bagged this photo, a portrait of institutional hypocrisy.
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Picturing Disaster These Days
Even if the drawing is all about global warming, I still can't help but think how much 9/11 and terrorism permeates our culture's orientation to disaster.
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Wednesday Round-Up: Taxing Times; Target Assange; Picturing Edwards
Bernie's not buying it. Assange not quite bound, but gagged. The Edwards' -- for the love of power.
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Visual Demonization: Osama bin Assange?
It would have been noteworthy just to callout the framing of this online equivalent of a post office wanted poster, framing Assange as international "public enemy number #1." Where the piling-on splashes into the gutter, though, and should bestow shame on any online photo editor who would consider...
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Second Take: Obama’s GOP Gene
In the early days (see #1), I was convinced that Obama's passion for crossing the aisle was mostly strategic. I don't believe that anymore.
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Apple’s The Beatles
What's both brilliant and extraordinarily chilling is the degree to which corporate America has taken over and melded political, corporate, popular and public culture.
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SNL's "Cold Opening" Goes Wild on Hillary's "Private Parts"
Certainly, the “private parts” of male politicians have served as punch lines for late night comedians, but those jokes typically lampoon something that the male politician did. These jokes about Hillary Clinton make fun of something that she is.
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The Ostrich in the Room
This Maryland wire shot of the sink hole didn't make all those "photo of the day" galleries just because it's funny...
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