January 2012 - Page 2 of 4 - Reading The Pictures

Media Focus Photo January 20, 2012

Not Your Usual Adbusters Cover?

For once, I don't think Adbusters is trying to provoke at all.

Bush Focus Photo January 19, 2012

$how Me the Omney

I don't know how I could have possibly missed the omney money anagram.

Campaign '12 Photo

Gingrich and the Smell Test

I'm sure this behavior, in the moment, was perfectly understandable, but why a particular photo rises to the top of the daily heap is based on completely different factors.

Fashion Focus Photo January 18, 2012

Salacious Sexiness in the Name of the "Larger" Feminist Ideal

What’s problematic about the PLUS Model layout is the way in which it turns the watchful eye of the male gaze on its ostensibly liberated subjects.

Disaster Focus Photo

Flying Too Close to the Sun

As Don Quixote’s sidekick Pancho reminds him, “whether the stone hits the bottle or the bottle hits the stone … its always bad for the bottle.”

Fashion Focus Photo

Fashion Watch: All Hail the Aristocrats

Even today, bourgeois morality remains alive and well.

Newt's Southern Brand

Campaign '12 Photo January 17, 2012

Newt's Southern Brand

Well, Gingrich might as well have had the South tattooed on his face.

Campaign '12 Photo January 16, 2012

Campaign Monday (on the Incumbent Side)

As the GOP candidates further bloody themselves, the President further co-opts the right wing agenda.

Occupy Wall Street Photo

OWS MLK: Taking Account(s)

It's the photo from today's trove that most closely captures King's philosophy and that of the Occupy movement .

Campaign '12 Photo January 15, 2012

You Say: "Mitt!" I Say: "Benjamins!"

Things shaping up the way they have been these past several months, I'd make sure my wallet was securely stashed on the campaign bus or in an aide's pocket so I was never, ever shown with a greenback in my hand again.

Campaign '12 Photo

The BagNews Campaign Mania Salon

The BagNewsSalon, a program of BagNewsNotes, brings together the world's leading photojournalists, visual academics and other informed observers to understanding how the visual media frames the key social and political events of the day. The next Salon, "Campaign Mania" involves an early look at the 2012 presidential campaign. ...

Media Focus Photo

Who's Who Isn't

Besides showcasing the fallout of a "power culture," The Voice also mocks how the media glorifies it.

Campaign '12 Photo January 13, 2012

Ironing Out the Wrinkles

But in the end there is Governor Romney, his hair carefully coifed and even his American flag steam ironed so that none of its wrinkles will show.

Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo

Still More Disturbing Pictures from the Afghan War: Obama and the Too-Shiny Marine

Perhaps what we're really looking at in these photos are cultural victims whose primary failing is to stand for the gap between a war off its rails and the propaganda effort still in place to sell it.

Campaign '12 Photo January 12, 2012

Mr. Palmetto Head

Maybe it's the instinct to crown him now and be done with it (mixed with the fact boring Mitt is driving the photogs out of their trees).

Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo

Our Take on Video Showing Marines Urinating on Taliban

For an act of humiliation, these guys are pretty discreet about showing their members.

Culture Focus Photo January 11, 2012

Streep-Thatcher: Beyond the Brooch

If "The Iron Lady" should be a cause for critique of the history and legacy of Thatcherism, instead Streep-Thatcher, and the ability of the celebrity to obscure the political image, is a generator of apathy.

Campaign '12 Photo

N. Hampshire Final: The Good News: You Won! The Bad News: You’re Now Poster Boy for Downsizing

If Romney departs the Granite State with an impressive win, he also limps out with all kinds of damage to his corporate persona.