If the goal was not just to drive traffic to AI and increase the organization's brand but to also cause people to "imagine it there,"does it create that result, or does it yield a more resistant reaction?
Continue ReadingWhat are we to make of this erasure, one that indicates sexual violence in the light of day? And why is it that most Americans readily recognize the “Napalm Girl” but not the “Black Blouse Girl?”
Continue ReadingLike always, Reed used these three categories typically ascribed to the artist -- personal destruction, recovery and transcendence -- as just more ironic material.
Continue ReadingHow nice (and stereotype-defying) to see men also giving a nod.
Continue ReadingWhere the "impossibility" lies is in the steep challenge of looking at these photos naïvely enough to consider each individual as distinct from the associations they invariably stimulate.
Continue ReadingConventional media wisdom and some misplaced notion of balance and liberal panic has apparently dictated that the Affordable Care Act's stumble out of the gate equates to the GOP's near-lethal, self-inflicted wound.
Continue ReadingI wish it was the Onion, but it's not.
Continue ReadingFast forward to now, can anyone say that McCarthy's open door policy and cajoling talent has led to the mavericks climbing under his wing?
Continue ReadingDo you know what's so brilliant -- and brilliantly rare -- about Chip Somodevilla's Instagram?
Continue ReadingWith conservatives precluding the ability of the government to pay its bills, raining down benjamins was a way of mocking that leverage -- along with its paternalism.
Continue ReadingI know the man works quickly so I can't tell how much he intended the petals to appear blackened but it speaks eloquently, both to the horror as well as the re-emergence.
Continue ReadingOnly the fizzling end to the insurrection has allowed reality to catch up to Mark Peterson's Cruz, Palin and Paul.
Continue ReadingTo the extent he and his caucus are perpetrating violence on the legislative system, yes, the photos do feature photographers targeting Boehner with their lenses.
Continue ReadingMore than just immersing myself in the daily experience of their lives, I wanted to make something that represented the peculiar power relationship between subject and documenter, by looking at the ways that I provoked, empowered and exploited my ‘subjects’
Continue ReadingThe overcoming of adversity relates not just to Boston but the country, baseball being America's game.
Continue ReadingFinally a full-throated backlash image -- and the strongest expression of liberal assertiveness since the 2012 election.
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