The South Will Rise Again. (Chortle, Knee Slap)
To the extent TIME, and this new photo section, concerns itself primarily with news photos and photojournalism, a photographer actually enabling these right-wing, militia-wannabes by recreating battle scenes with them strikes an awkward note, indeed.
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Fukushima a Month Out: Hear Not Much Evil, See Not Much Evil
This reactor story didn’t smell right to me from the beginning (Japan series at Bag and Bag Tumblr), and it only felt more so after listening to Helen Caldicott and Alex Smith talk about the volatility of the Fukushima plant a week ago on Pacifica Radio (as opposed to that MOR...
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BagNewsSalon: Assignment Egypt
On Sunday, March 20th, BagNewsSalon is hosting an online panel looking at the media's visual framing of the Egypt uprising. We encourage you to listen in, recommend the discussion to colleagues and also recommend students to view this lively deconstruction of key media images.
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All the King's Horses and All The King's Men: More Fateful TEPCO Pics:
These are newly released photos from TEPCO documenting the moment just after and before the tsunami "attacked" the nuclear plant. (Yes, they describe it like that.)
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Wall Street: War's Over
What I can't get past is the fact that the benjamins represent the middle finger and one giant FU to government, Main Street and accountability.
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Laura Bush: Just About Generic
People tend to look at photos like these and see Laura as an empty shell. However, I always saw it as guardedness, so what you see is a thoroughly scrubbed and generic Lady's Home Journal-style surface.
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More Scenes from TEPCO: Behind the Lead Boards
I can imagine an expert saying a crisis like this involves a little bit of Rube Goldberg. On the other hand, the lead boards -- like the photo we looked at the other day of the worker pointing out the notorious crack -- leaves me anxious.
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Obama: Playing Both Sides Against the Middle?
Looking at this picture, it's vintage Obama. But then, whether it indicates him trying to have it both ways, splitting the difference or more shrewdly "playing both sides against the middle," I can't really say.
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Budget Lock Up: America Held Hostage
I imagine this photo would appeal most right now to everyone in the "pox on both their houses" school.
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Scenes from an Ongoing Meltdown
The visual irony from Fukushima just keep piling up.
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Sluts for Choice
As the GOP, lead mostly by well-off white men, attempts to leverage a potential government shutdown by stripping funds for Planned Parenthood, doesn't this young woman's sign nail the subterfuge right on its head?
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Shutdown Portraits: The GOP's Anger Pose
When I came upon this shot of Newt from the '95 government shutdown, I thought that pose looked awfully familiar.
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Amanda Rivkin in Hungary: Toxic Red Sludge
It's been six months since toxic red sludge from an aluminum plant in Hungary burst and flooded two surrounding villages. Photographer Amanda Rivkin delivers an update.
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Wrestling with the Apocalypse
If anything comes out of the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown at all, it's a deeper understanding of how stereotypically the world relates to the Japanese.
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Seer or Snatcher? The GOP Targets Medicare
GOP visionary or an entitlement-snatcher robbing seniors of Medicare? Just like DC, the picture breaks two radically different ways.
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Fukushima: That Which You Cannot Sea
With news this week of the sizable release of radioactive water into the sea, it seems the threat to these soldiers is everywhere.
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Angelina on the Tunisia/Libya Border
I'm not saying Angelina doesn't have an impact, but this photo is just forced and exploitive.
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