When they go low, we go… lower?
Continue ReadingWith the presidential campaign in its final days, we would have had plenty of election pics to show you even if the FBI Director hadn't blown it up.
Continue ReadingIt takes a particularly provocative t-shirt these days to merit special attention. Like this one.
Continue ReadingOn September 22, 2016, The School of Visual Arts presented "The Backlash Election: Campaign '16 In Pictures," a lecture by Reading the Pictures publisher, Michael Shaw. Watch it here.
Continue ReadingWhat makes one critical event the intense focus of “name photojournalists” and visual media while others are largely ignored?
Continue ReadingIt’s no surprise political and media Twitter, in the half-hour or so before the debate, was so chock full of kittens and puppies.
Continue ReadingIn this bleak campaign season, it’s wonderful to be reminded how much less of our old baggage young people are carrying around.
Continue ReadingTrump's blaming and bullying actually causes us to fear for the safety of the writers and photographers covering the last days of this pyrrhic campaign.
Continue ReadingWhat's hard to fathom is the gap between women who are sickened by Trump and those who can't seem to get enough of him.
Continue ReadingThis debate photo of Hillary mouthless with a look of regard (when all Trump could do was berate her) cuts to the heart of women's negation.
Continue ReadingHere's what caught our eye during the second Clinton - Trump debate, an ugly spectacle we hope we never witness again.
Continue ReadingBeyond the campaign photos, we found a few other pictures with a little more heart.
Continue ReadingIn that territory between fact and myth, what the photo brings up is "the silent majority."
Continue ReadingWhat we're seeing in these photo galleries is a replay of the stereotype associating young black men with criminal and savages.
Continue ReadingThis joint Reading the Pictures/UMBC Salon is interested in science as a social agenda and how science images are being portrayed in visual culture.
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