October 2011 - Page 2 of 3 - Reading The Pictures

Media Focus Photo October 18, 2011

Demonizing OWS: Beware "the Anger Meme"

What's so significant about this photo is how it plants the seeds of demonization. Although the OWS movement has been overwhelming peaceful so far, my concern is seeing an "anger meme" creep into the reporting.

International Focus Photo

Guitar Hero

Clearly a "photo gallery top hit."

Media Focus Photo October 17, 2011

The Pepper Spray Girl

So, watch out! Here comes the media hungrily eyeing the non-hierarchical, ego-less Occupy Wall Street movement with the typical aim to individualize, aestheticize, glamorize, romanticize and dole out some notoriety and fame.

Occupy Wall Street Photo

Eclipsing the Drones

Can OWS protests close the book on ten years of militarism?

Media Focus Photo October 16, 2011

The New Frankness

Just like the passivity and the public's "make-like-a-lemming" instincts are coming off now in the streets, editorial photographers and political illustrators are picking up the beat.

Nina Berman Photo October 15, 2011

Nina Berman at Occupy Wall Street: Sweeping Victory

Really, if Bloomberg and Brookfield wanted a fight, the issues of hygiene and the consideration for public quality of life were some really odd values to try and hinge it on.

Photo October 14, 2011

TIME Covers: Painting the Grassroots & A Stealth Afghan Do-Over

Comparing the latest TIME covers for these two markets, the grassroot "Occupy Wall Street" get a make-over and TIME's take on the war gets a do-over.

Photo

The Improbable Dancer

The system the bull represents will never create an improbable dancer, real or imagined. Still, no matter how improbable the dancer's pose, the fact of this image makes it conceivable.

Culture Focus Photo October 12, 2011

Compassion Bashing

"In a society given over to greed & arrogance, compassion could be a revolutionary idea."

Business Focus Photo

Romney Drinking From the Cup

Romney, of course, did pay lip service last night to the pain and frustration people are feeling right now. But what the photo speaks to how much always is mugging for Wall Street culture.

Nina Berman Photo

Nina Berman at Occupy Wall Street: The Statue of Liberty Re-Imagined

What I see is the Statue of Liberty beautifully re-imagined in a young face with brown skin (consistent with the country's demographic trend line).

Occupy Wall Street Photo October 11, 2011

Occupy Demographics: Dirty Hippies?

If you've been consuming the message that the Occupy Wall Street movement mostly consists of hippy youth, take a look at these photos from a OccupyDC organizers meeting.

President Obama Photo October 10, 2011

Occupy Obama

My guess is that the WH offered up this photo to broadcast Obama is more than aware of the raw frustrations. Still, running the picture is clearly a gamble.

Business Focus Photo

Occupy Wall Street: On the Short End of the Supply Chain

It was interesting last week to hear some dissonant notes intermixed with the Steve Jobs remembrances, people chattering about exploitation of natural resources and foreign workers, about corporate power, and the the like. If found this an interesting Occupy photo to the extent it starts to draw the “less...

Salon Archive Photo October 9, 2011

BagNewsSalon: The Visual Framing of “The Great Recession”

Join us the next BagNewsSalon discussing the framing of the great recession in the United States and Europe. The Salon includes photographers who have been covering the recession in depth and academics specializing in the visual rhetoric of poverty and social welfare.