June 2011 - Page 3 of 3 - Reading The Pictures

Campaign '12 Photo June 11, 2011

Obama – GOP "Handicapped"

Bag teases apart The Economist's election handicapping.

Business Focus Photo June 10, 2011

Juxtaposition of the Day: You're Either With Government, Or Against It

Businessweek flashing some confounding signals from week-to-week.

Media Focus Photo

War is … Heaven?

Looking at this pic, it feels like the transition from war to art photography is finally complete.

Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo

Dover Finale?

Might the scale and theater here embody raised hopes of a possible end game in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Campaign '12 Photo June 8, 2011

Disabled Infants as Campaign Props: Santorum, Palin and a Trig Update

To follow up (because little Trig was really the catalyst for the Santorum Tumble), I was interested to know whether and how much Sarah's Downs son was being showcased these days.

Culture Focus Photo

Tiger Brats

While China struggles with its "Emperor brats," is the only way to stoke the Western competitive spirit these days (not to mention, more online clicks) through consumer envy?

Media Focus Photo

Media's Weiner Pictures: Who's Getting Dirty Now?

There is something of a parallel process in play where the visual media gets to now take over the fetishizing of the Congressman, it's own prurient interests driving their own creating and posting of tawdry pictures of him.

Campaign '12 Photo June 7, 2011

Mitt on the Great White Way

Here's a few points deconstructing the Newsweek Mitt Mormon cover. (Or, a few points on Newsweek's Mitt Mormon destruction cover.)

Disaster Focus Photo

Nuclear Bunnies?

Whether the bunny is a Fukushima mutation or not is not really the issue.

Photo June 6, 2011

Weiner Revealed

Discussing the Anthony Weiner "smoking gun."

BAGannouncements Photo

LIFE's Top 20 Photo Blogs

This morning, BagNews was named one of LIFE’s top 20 photo blogs. Although proud of my own work, what I’m especially pleased about is the acknowledgement of our overall mission, and the recognition of an extended community of extremely talented people involved in making the Bag what it is....

International Focus Photo

Afghanistan: Field of Dreams II

Poppies and opium fields have been favorite visual subject matter since the war began. In this case, the question is how much resonance there is between the dreamy pictures, the effect of the plants and the logic of the build up and now, potential drawdown?

Culture Focus Photo June 5, 2011

Juxtaposition of the Day: Eating our Peas

Does the New Yorker cover capture the collision between today's anti-government mood and the health movement, or just a little natural resistance to a growing trend? (If it's the later, though, somebody please tell Coca-Cola.)