Once upon a time, picture quality had everything to do with you fiddling skills with the rabbit ears.
Continue ReadingBeyond the funky Thanksgiving morning amuse bouche, I think it's wonderful how subtly this pivots us into the holiday season.
Continue ReadingOver the next four days, I'm sure there'll be six or eight things I'm thankful for.
Continue ReadingOf course, anything could be happening here. Still....
Continue ReadingIt'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.
Continue ReadingHow 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.
Continue ReadingIf 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.
Continue ReadingWe 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...
Continue ReadingWe 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...
Continue ReadingWe 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...
Continue ReadingFor 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...
Continue ReadingWith 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.
Continue ReadingMaybe 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.
Continue ReadingI 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?
Continue ReadingAs 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.
Continue ReadingI'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%.
Continue ReadingWhat 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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