The Donald Revised
Of course, it would be a complete delusion to even assume that one word, or one cover, could effect a U-turn when it comes to the treatment and cultural platform afforded these types of actors, but it's a wonderful wish.
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Royal Wedding Interpretations #2
Perhaps this photo was so intensely popular because fantasy is out-of-style.
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Remembering Chris Hondros, Part III: Tal Afar
Edward Wong of the New York Times shares the story of Chris Hondros's photographs documenting the accidental killing of Iraqi civilians by American troops in Iraq.
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The Gurney
There but not there. This photo seems to capture the ambiguous media status of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima.
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The Birther-tificate
Anyway, given the 12% of the population of The U-nit-ed States of A-merica that the release of this document is totally wasted on, I can imagine them doing their carnival thing with any one of these points.
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Chernobyl and the Spirit World
Chernobyl is now a ghost town, which is one reason this mural is so powerful. The photographic record documents one abandoned habitat after another: schools, hospitals, office buildings, homes, everything had to be abandoned. Harder to capture are the many illnesses, deformities, and deaths caused by the...
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Remembering Chris Hondros, Part II
Alan Chin, Scout Tufankjian, and Stephanie Sinclair share their memories of Chris Hondros.
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"Hit and Run" on the Liberals – The 2012 Model
What are we supposed to think about this illustration, coming from a city powered by Wall Street, as we careen into another election season with the central tenants of the New Deal seemingly stacked at the stop light?
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Afghanistan: Holey War
The clueless gaze of the Afghan military guy with his little notebook only adds to the haplessness of this metaphor.
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Remembering Chris Hondros, Part I
Tim Fadek, Spencer Platt, Nicole Tung, and Gary Fabiano share their thoughts on Chris Hondros.
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Some of My Favorite Chris Hondros Photos #2: John Kerry Live
If Hondros had a way of relating to people that was rare for a photojournalist, perhaps it was rare for Kerry, too.
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GOP Home For Recess. Media: Where's the Blood?
Hmm, two stories, one by the LA Times and other by Politico, about the same Pennsylvania Congressman with trouble in his backyard. If House Republicans were getting chainsawed back home for threatening Medicare, Social Security and the like, though, this photo -- accompanying the LAT story --was the only...
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We're Sorry
Apparently, corporate responsibility has a strikingly different face to it in Japan than it does in America.
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Some of My Favorite Chris Hondros Photos #1: Merchant Marine Memorial
Chris' image is brilliant for the way it moves silently around the ritual, past the bible, the collar and the ever-present hands of the clergy, finding a deeper grace.
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Beached White Male? Oh, Please.
1. Don't these big news mags do this "endangered white male" thing at least once a year?
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