If you consider Vanity Fair's elaborate two-page photo layout of John McCain in light of the picture Todd S. Purdum paints of the candidate in this extended profile, you have to wonder what happened to McCain that allows him to run for President and still live with himself.
Continue ReadingHe wasn't particularly old, and when he was lucid, which wasn't that often over the past eight weeks, he was warm, gracious, a gentleman -- in a culture that makes an art out of dignity and carriage. At the same time, however, in this society built fundamentally around family,...
Continue ReadingMy visual analysis of the media reaction to the so-called Edwards/Pandagon/Shakespeare's Sister scandal...... One more time, MSM reaction to hysterical right wing blogs is completely "out of scale."... Isolate portions of any political blog, project it at this level of detail, and you're guaranteed to offend any reactionary anybody...
Continue Reading**The "collage" is a short list of social/political visuals The BAG recommends; admires; envies; can't get to; or can't let go by (with at least one eye toward the growing community of photo/visual blogs).
Continue ReadingThe average person is several paychecks away from oblivion - they cant attend an optional activity at the expense of - potentially - their survival.... Another D.C. demonstration comment at Huffington went a similar route, associating anemic protest energy with the fact that corporate America has essentially co-opted the...
Continue ReadingRamping up for '08, Hillary Clinton enters the contest already branded with a negatively-coded visual. The device involves her profile.
Continue ReadingIf pictures from Baghdad have been hard to come by, last Monday's NYT video of a U.S./Iraqi raid was a deadly exception. The presentation left little to the imagination -- except the swearing. (Although why coarse language would be stricken, considering everything, is bizarre.)
Continue ReadingI invite your comments on this latest set of images from photojournalist and BAGnewsNotes contributer, Alan Chin.
Continue ReadingIt is clear to me now that the visual attention surrounding Hillary Clinton goes far beyond simple media hype.
Continue ReadingAriadna Arnés, one of the talented photojournalists I've met here in Barcelona, visited the States for the first time in 1988, attending an exchange program at Rochester Institute of Technology. These images, taken in upstate New York, capture her earliest impression of America.
Continue ReadingWhat makes the photo intriguing -- featuring bipartisan Bush escalation critics Hagel, Lugar and Biden (the first two, Republicans)-- is its thoroughly bipolar nature. At the confrontation point, are these guys going to master the fine print, honor their seriousness and determination, and push forward ... or will they...
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