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Culture Focus Photo November 30, 2013

I'm Thankful … I Didn't have to Photo Edit That

Once upon a time, picture quality had everything to do with you fiddling skills with the rabbit ears.

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Photo November 28, 2013

I'm Thankful … For the Pepper

Beyond the funky Thanksgiving morning amuse bouche, I think it's wonderful how subtly this pivots us into the holiday season.

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Culture Focus Photo November 26, 2013

I'm Thankful — from Dealey Plaza

Over the next four days, I'm sure there'll be six or eight things I'm thankful for.

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Culture Focus Photo November 25, 2013

One More Commentary on the Cell Phone

Of course, anything could be happening here. Still....

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Fashion Focus Photo November 24, 2013

Racism as Style: The Return of Blackface

It's becoming increasingly difficult for me to overlook the tremendously casual manner in which fashion photographs repeat the ghoulish visual history of racism as style.

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Militarism Focus Photo November 22, 2013

Your Turn: Riot Cop Fantasies

How odd is it that these two pics, one from Bulgaria, the other from Italy, surfaced within the same week. More significantly, what are we to make of them? For thoughts, we're turning things over to you.

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Media Focus Photo

Pic of the Day: White House's Crass (Visual) Response to Media's Photo Access Protest

If the White House intended even a half-respectful gesture, they would have provided access to the president yesterday in a spot that was personal, doing something personal.

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Culture Focus Photo November 21, 2013

We Are All Bystanders: 18 Visual Scholars Reflect on Previously Unseen JFK Assassination Photographs – #3

We at BagNews were interested in bringing a deeper visual analysis to the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Accordingly, we invited a broad group of distinguished visual scholars to provide us with brief responses to unknown photographs from November 1963. This is the last of a three post...

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Culture Focus Photo November 20, 2013

On the Move: 18 Visual Scholars Reflect on Previously Unseen JFK Assassination Photographs – #2

We at BagNews were interested in bringing a deeper visual analysis to the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Accordingly, we invited a broad group of distinguished visual scholars to provide us with brief responses to unknown photographs from November 1963. This is the second of a three post...

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Downward Like a Lightning Bolt: 18 Visual Scholars Reflect on Previously Unseen JFK Assassination Photographs – #1

We at BagNews were interested in bringing a deeper visual analysis to the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Accordingly, we invited a broad group of distinguished visual scholars to provide us with a brief response to a photograph from November 1963. This is the first of a three...

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John Lucaites Photo November 19, 2013

Syria Ho-Hum

The real horror of war may well be its everyday ordinariness.

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Originals Photo November 18, 2013

Rita Leistner: Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan #3 – The Life after Death of Skeuomorphism

For the first time in history we are making photography and writing on the very same tool. The affected and algorithmic images of the smartphone draw attention to the devices they are made on, and for me, at least, have opened a portal between image and text that I...

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Obamelot: The Kennedy Mojo as Early Visual Juice for Obama's

With the Kennedy aura now under the microscope, it's interesting to appreciate its contribution to the Obama "HOPE train" during America's financial death spiral, including how the two auras visually fed each other.

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On That Open Carry Parking Lot "Shooting"

Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t help seeing (that profile) view as a targeting, and exactly the angle that a real enemy would take. More to the point, we can see how the potential for violence invites a greater potential for violence.

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Disaster Focus Photo November 16, 2013

Those Sensual Typhoon Pictures from the Philippines

I understand high contrast color is the new normal, but applied to disaster photography and extreme distress amidst exotic scenery, why does it feel like the stimulation is subsuming the information?

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Business Focus Photo November 15, 2013

Augmented Mannequins Figuring Prominently: The Globalization of Barbie

As the Times tells it, the mannequins are the brain child of factory owner Eliezer Alvarez, who “created the kind of woman he thought the public wanted—one with a bulging bosom and cantilevered buttocks.” The strategy worked.

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Campaign '12 Photo November 14, 2013

"Biracial Gag Response" In Pictures: A Little Jenga For the 13%

I'm pretty sure the glue that connected Cohen to Romney in my head was the Gallup 13% biracial disapproval stat being bandied around married to Mitt's self-inflicted brouhaha over America's deluded 47%.

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Remember When Obama Was the Guy Who Best Knew How to Get There?

What the photo reveals, then, perhaps more clearly than any other so far, is the strength of Obama's leadership -- especially, in-house -- in the face of multiple tremendous challenges.

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