And Now It Starts

Well, the NYT moved pretty fast today in walking back their first visual swipe at the Obama administration.

More Thoughts On The Obama Picture: Pixels And Glass

For me, very simply, each one of these photos Tim captured at the Grant Park victory celebration thematically sets the table for a different political and visual facet of the Obama administration.

And Now We Want It Back

More than the photos from Grant Park or New York or Kenya or anywhere else Tuesday night, the scene outside the White House is what did it for me.

Our Man In Grant Park: The 44th President Of The United States

We invite you to share your reactions to Alan Chin's images from Obama's victory celebration in Chicago last night. I'll be adding some thoughts (and also some background) within the next couple hours , and Alan will available to respond in the discussion thread.

Our Man In Grant Park: At The Turn

In advance of an Alan Chin slide show of last night's historic Obama victory, we start you off with this. The shot was taken at the Hilton at the party hosted by Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.

President-Elect And Mrs. Obama

In his victory speech tonight, Obama spoke of the changes America has seen over the lifetime of Ann Nixon Cooper, a 106 year old African-American voter in Atlanta. ...Needless to say, I will also have her back as we move forward, looking both to understand the media's relationship with...

BNN Blogging The Visual Side Of The Election Returns

5:11 PST: CNN showing crowd in Grant Park watching/cheering for themselves on CNN monitors.... 5:31 PST: Still can't figure out that weird electronic chart that Bill Schneider and Soledad O'Brian are playing with.

Mario Tama: The Vote From Birmingham

Eighty-one year old Emmitt Coleman sitting on his porch after casting his ballot. (image: ©Mario Tama/Getty.

’08 Parting Shots: Seriously, McCain?

It's easy to look at this photo, taken in '07 in Exeter, New Hampshire, and dispense with it as frivolous. On the other hand, its grown increasingly clear -- and will likely be much more so beginning tomorrow -- that McCain's campaign never deserved to be taken that seriously.

The Visual Codes Of Racism

Racism is the American tragedy, and as the current political campaign reminds us, it comes in many shades and colors.

Your Turn: CKOBAMA.C

This was the image accompanying Monday's NYT Obama campaign story , the next-to-last before the election.... caption: Senator Barack Obama on his plane late Saturday when he arrived in Springfield, Mo., during a final weekend pass through contested states before the election.)

’08 Parting Shots: A Regular Jo(k)e

I was interested to see Josh Marshall call Joe the Plummer a skinhead.

Mario Tama: The Picture From Birmingham

Following up yesterday's image here of college students retracing the "Bloody Sunday" march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge, Mario forwarded this powerful photo from Birmingham.

Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham (October 26, 1922 – November 3, 2008)

Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham (October 26, 1922 - November 3, 2008)

’08 Closing Shots: Mother Sarah

This close-up feels like the final distillation of so many photo-ops of Palin we've studied since the RNC. What the image demonstrates -- as the starry-eyed candidate poses with someone else's special needs child -- is how Palin, thoroughly glossy and made up with that far away gaze, became...

Frame Job

The sleaziest thing about the Obama-Wright ad running nationally now is how, using a tabletop and picture frames, Obama is pitched as more wedded to Wright than he was to his wife on their wedding day.

The BAG will be upping the output as the campaign winds down. Plus, we'll have exclusive images from Grant Park by contributer Alan Chin

What's Next

Before we actually get to the other side of the election, I wanted to answer the question I've been asked more that any other recently, which is: What's next for BAGnewsNotes?"