Democracy’s Darkroom: Tell It, Read It, Decode It, Survive
We need imagery and analysis that exposes how Trump—in all the rapid-fire, misdirecting, and gaslighting—remains able to manipulate the culture in such a neurologic way. By Michael Shaw and Cara Finnegan Pain and fortitude. Age and motion. Animation of the white guy and the flag. The “national barrier.” All...
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Chatting the Pictures: Youth Take Center Stage
Everywhere you looked this week, young people dominated the political dialogue.
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Watch the Reading the Pictures Salon: A Look at Early Campaign ’16
Watch our expert Salon panel analyze key photos of the campaign so far.
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Obama Straightening it Out?
A humorous illustration of President Obama’s fabled love of order and attention to detail? A visual gesture to his everyman willingness to chip in and do the work himself? Maybe. But this month-old photo showed up yesterday morning on the White House Flickr Photostream amid a deluge of...
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