Election Final: Sarah’s Fingerprints
Having gotten behind winning candidates like Branstad, Haley and Fiorina, this Palin photo -- even though it was taken on Saturday at the Belmont Stakes -- might still be the most significant image of election night.
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Meg Whitman, Natural Wonder
Check out this weird pre-victory party walk-through photo using the background to frame Whitman as almost cartoonish. She deserves it, though, if just for the exploitation of nature and environmentalism.
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Ladies Night 2010: Bubba’s Fingerprints
Election '10 not withstanding, I wonder how much the conservative Washington Times printed the photo with still other associations in mind.
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Gulf War III
Channeling Colin Powell, the White House will begin emphasizing the overwhelming force being concentrated for a “siege” against the catastrophic gusher.
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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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Fear and Self-Loathing in an Environmental Catastrophe
What we see in the photograph then is an image of ourselves. The disgust we experience in viewing it is a measure of self-loathing animated by the implicit recognition of own impurities and decrepitude.
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White House: Aw Shucks
The unflattering photo takes aim at the President's gesture of solidarity with the locals. Using the look of the convenience store owner as a non-verbal editorial, the message is that the President is going through the motions.
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Chien-Min Chung: Deadly Endgame In Bangkok
Photographer Chien-Min Chung's images and report from the bloody crackdown in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Seeing that Nature Can't Be Fooled
I'm featuring these photos in order to point out not only that nature can't be fooled, but that humans will continue to fool themselves. The sinkhole in Guatemala is not the first in that area, but few would expect everyone living there to pack up and leave (and then...
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Visual Week in Review: Spin, Spin, Spin
From Israel and Gaza, to Al and Tipper, to DC and BP, everyone had their own story to re-tell this week.
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Primal Scream
The hand of vengence from the plume became that much more evident yesterday via the lens of AP’s Charlie Riedel. Maybe this “slow-motion” disaster is payback for living in this “instant” culture we’ve created for ourselves, working ever-so-much-on-it’s-own-time, revealing itself as a picture would materialize, yes, that slowly, after...
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Just a Day at the Beach
What I find just fascinating are pictures of Alabamans taking to the surf like business-as-usual.
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War and Editing
Because cameras are now fully part of the fight, its not about what the pictures say as much as what else they've got.
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Let the Energy, Natural Resources and Extinguishing the Animals Committee Come to Order
What’s so brilliant about Blitt’s New Yorker Oil Spill cover — in the identification we feel with the animals — is how much it reflects our own helplessness, focuses our rage, and fantasizes that we animals, too, might somehow sit in judgment over the big oil machine.
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The Gores: Happily Never After
On the surface, there is no questioning "the perfect love" in this prototypical American relationship. Not surprisingly, though, the relationship -- unlike the paradigm on which it was based --turns out to be a lot more complicated.
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Stephen Ferry: Election In Colombia
Photographer Stephen Ferry on the Presidential Election in Colombia.
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Hey Tony, Here’s What You Can Do With Your Sunflower!
1. On one hand, you gotta think: what took so long?
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BP Busing and Scam Photo Ops
I’d say the post by MataHarley yesterday at Flopping Aces, a right-wing blog, was pretty courageous. Titled “BP Busing & Scam Photo Ops… the scandal that wasn’t,“ the author rips both the left and right for accusing Obama of staging last Friday’s photo op on the beach in Grand...
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