BagNewsSalon: Since Katrina with Mario Tama
Looking Since the Storm A BAGnewsNotes Salon featuring Getty Photographer Mario Tama Sunday, April 5, 2009 5:00 - 6:30 pm PST, 8:00-9:30 pm EST
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Handily Erasing George Bush
The reaching out from England's gates of power and the face of warm reciprocation speaks to Obama's humility, a trait so cathartic its feels as if Europe has largely been rinsed of the Bush toxicity in all of one week.
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Reflecting On The Meltdown
In this photo from yesterday's anti-capitalist demonstration in New York's financial district, Getty photographer Mario Tama captures America's split between anger and denial and haves and have nots.
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The Committee To Save The World. (Whoops!)
Because Paul Krugman's latest opinion piece references this ten-year-old TIME cover featuring Greenspan, Rubin and Summers, I thought it was worth taking a look at.
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Your Turn: Michelle – Carla
Well, I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't pay my respects to the much anticipated Michelle Obama - Carla Bruni-Sarkozy photo op.
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Pic of the Week
On Tuesday this week, the NYT offered an image in its G-20 summit preview that I found peculiar, or playfully frivolous -- at least, at first.
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Gee!
By next summit, we'll surely see a less effusive, even "Golly, gee!" Obama. But for now....
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HRC G20 09
Clinton took the "China assignment" after Holbrooke and Mitchell were assigned the sexier Afghan and Middle East portfolios, and this week at the G-20, she made it pay.
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G-20 Inside Out
I'm looking at the painting, the curtains, the panelling, the chandelier -- in other words, the aristocratic and opulent quality surrounding this conclave ... especially in relation to the street (and the world-wide economic hurt).
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There’s Rage And Then There’s Rage
Seems like quite a contrast in rage over the banking meltdown, I'd say, between the two side of the pond.
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Sexing Up The G-20
Looking at these "Girls of the G20 Summit protest" shots brings a few things to mind.
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Your Turn: That Was Then, This Is Now
Update 9:24pm: Can you see any contrast in style comparing Obama's first presidential trip to England a with Bush's trip in '03? What about the fact the men are positioned on the outside in the top photo? This arrangement suggests a lot about the characters involved, particularly Bush —...
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London Calling
44 and MO never personally struck me that way before, but this photo of the beaming Obamas deplaning in London seems to have a JFK/Jackie O feel to it.
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