Busted by Mecklenburg County? Call it Trial by Internet
I can't say how many other online newspaper sites do something similar, but the digital paper offers a photo post which is a cross between and the local crime report and a rogue's gallery.
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Korea Pics of the Week: Paper Tiger vs. Bloody Tiger
There aren't two other photos from the extensive collection this week that better represent the extreme ends of the N. Korea threat spectrum.
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Femen Storms Putin, but is “Femenism” really “Feminism”?
Unfortunately, Femen’s “new aesthetics” look strikingly similar to the optics of patriarchy.
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Photography and Poverty: Tendency to Infantalize?
I find it a powerful commentary about photography and poverty, suggesting how easily and typically we can infantilize the poor.
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No Red Carpet for Two Years!! — Huma, Anthony and the NYT Mag Photos
I love the cover. Ostensibly about Huma's disappointment, it's really about passing through "the publicly humbled" phase of the major event/power couple restoration process.
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(Musical) Mormon Demographics
If you've been following The Bag for a while, you know how fond we are of photos that suggest an age, race or gender breakdown of particular movements or groups.
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Where the Price of Freedom is Jail: Pics from Kabul's Central Women's Prison
To a western liberal audience, these rare photos of Afghan women incarcerated for so-called "moral crimes" are like a punch in the gut.
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Further Coating the Reputation: Condi's Breakthrough at Augusta
Some would say she more properly belongs in prison stripes than in the storied green jacket, but this photo is a PR coup for the reputation redemption of Condoleezza Rice.
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Horse of a Different Color: Charlotte Observer's Creative Contribution to Photo Processing Debate
What a wonderful way to cue the public that something is up with news photography -- and to make it known with such a simple illustration.
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Margaret Thatcher's Greatest Legacy: Co-opting the Female Role?
What was remarkable about Margaret Thatcher was not only how she bent associations to female roles but defied and exploited gender stereotypes.
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March Madness
In the spirit of those programs morally and often financially leveraging the institution to enable the athletic program, let's enjoy the NCAA men's title game tonight.
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Women Who Expect One Thing and Get Another
Lately, I've been thinking about themes and patterns in the river of photos flowing through the news web.
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Your Turn: Hispanic Values
A bit of a far cry from: "looking for a few good men," wouldn't you say?
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Jew in a Box
So when the base of the box in which the person sits says “Are there still Jews in Germany?', maybe an automatic response would be to addend a "why" to the start of the sentence.
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The School Turnaround Dance
The lead image in the slideshow captures the hostile danse ballet of what American schools have become.
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Keystone Preview?: Crude Pictures from Mayflower
As the one photo of the rupture in the Wall Street Journal's parsimonious Photos of the Day gallery on Tuesday, I think this chessboard view is abstract enough to be pretty.
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The U.S./Korea War Pageant
Even if the threat from N. Korea is just posturing, Pyongyang's "declaration of war" in this internet age has set off a full-scale rhetorical engagement and intense visual confrontation.
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