Suggests how hard it is to get fired up for Romney.
Continue ReadingThe Supreme Court Obamacare announcement mess illustrate the shortcomings of traditional media and the growing power and critical effect of social media.
Continue ReadingOf course, today we hardly notice, but in the early days of cell phones, people on the street looked like they were psychotic.
Continue ReadingWho would think the fact we have a current female Secretary of State might conjure less than flattering comparisons to certain predecessors?
Continue ReadingMy dollar bet says that, between now and November, the White House Photo-of-the-Day largely morphs into an archive documenting how Team Obama eeked out a second term by way of the Rovian micro-targeting strategy.
Continue ReadingAs women use their bodies as instruments of resistance and protest, one would only hope cameras would pay attention to them with their clothes on.
Continue ReadingThe top cover is next week’s U.S. Edition. The one below will appear next week in international markets. I suppose they did this on purpose: Resolve the question premised on one cover with an answer posed on another.
Continue ReadingVeiled and separate, the women depicted in this Time photo essay are political players who note their inequality even while participating in it. Is it simply a Western view or are these photographs slightly subversive?
Continue ReadingAre you coming to the Photoville photo festival in DUMBO? I'll be speaking on "The State of the News Photo."
Continue ReadingI might not see this much longer, but because Aung San Suu Kyi is mostly a new face on the world stage, having elevated there largely as a person of conscience, these photos are clearly over the top.
Continue ReadingWhat's going on here, though, is not just a nostalgia play associating Mitt to simpler times.
Continue ReadingThese photos were taken at Sunday’s silent march in Manhattan protesting the NYPD’s bias in conducting racially-biased searches. The man’s suit and the quote as a historical reference seem to anchor this gentleman in the civil rights movement, an effect he quite likely had in mind. (His sign reads:...
Continue ReadingThe "casual Friday" approach to protest suppression.
Continue ReadingThe significance of Obama atop the nation's most symbolic reclamation project.
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