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Photo December 31, 2012

New Year's Eve Juxtaposition of the Day

Happy New Year from The Bag!

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Fully Loaded: the Gun Debate (and Political Violence)

Though the gun is pointing forward of the child, the perspective and photographic proximity of barrel-to-cheek arms this photo with the almost indescribable tension that such a weapon could blow a head off.

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Photo December 30, 2012

Best of the Bag, 2012: The Campaign Silly Season, Self-Inflicted and Imposed

Although much of it was self-inflicted, the Romney/Ryan campaign didn't get a lot of visual respect during the presidential campaign. Bag takes a look at some of the visual low lights in 2012 GOP campaign politics.

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Photo December 29, 2012

Best Photos of 2012 and Why: Yes, In Our Backyard

During the holiday break, Bag is noting the notable: the most interesting shots in the many 2012 Picture of the Year galleries. The photo in this post came from the Associated Press Picture of the Year collection.

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Photo December 28, 2012

Best Photos of 2012 and Why: The Election and "Otherness"

During the holiday break, Bag is noting the notable: the most interesting shots in the many 2012 Picture of the Year galleries. The photo in this post came from The Vancouver Sun's Top photos from the year shot by Getty Images photographers around the world.

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Photo December 27, 2012

Best Photos of 2012 And Why: Denial is a Memorial in State College

During the holiday break, Bag is noting the notable: the most interesting shots in the many 2012 Picture of the Year galleries. The photo in this post came from the Associated Press Picture of the Year collection.

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Best of the Bag 2012: Instagram, Twitpics, and the Immediacy of Now

Social media amplifies the change wrought by the advent of the cell phone camera: any reporter, photographer, any government, any person can post photos of events immediately after they happen for whatever purpose. Of course, Bag will look at that purpose and did so for our collection of social...

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Photo December 26, 2012

Best of the Bag 2012: Visual Skirmishes in the War on Women

As the battle over reproductive rights played out in state houses across the country, in 2012 BagNews saw women portrayed through the lens of familiar memes: the seductress, the sex object, the subjective submissive, the second fiddle. As usual, we explored these portrayals whenever they caught our eye.

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Photo December 24, 2012

Best Photos of 2012 and Why: From Holmes to Newtown

During the holiday break, Bag is noting the notable: the most interesting shots in the many 2012 Picture of the Year galleries.

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Photo December 23, 2012

Best of the Bag, 2012: Santorum on the Trail

Bag revisits some of the best photos and posts of 2012, this one Stephen Crowley's extraordinary capture of Rick Santorum on the GOP primary campaign trail.

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Photo December 22, 2012

Best Photos of 2012, and Why: From Syria to the New York Harbor

How a powerful photo from Syria reflects the American conscience.

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Photo December 21, 2012

Best Bag Posts of the Year: Oversight in the Media-Military Marriage

Bag revisits the best of our 2012 posts, this one examining the compromise of war coverage in this age of embedding and advocated oversight of media-military engagement. It's one of Bagnews' (and Michael's) best posts of the year.

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BAGannouncements Photo December 20, 2012

Bag 2012 and '13 … and a Warm Thank You!

We wish you the warmest holidays as we prepare and look forward to making BagNews a bigger, better and more satisfying experience in 2013.

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TIME's Obama "Person of the Year" Cover – A Triumph of Assimilation?

Given that TIME's selection was inspired by Obama's role as a cultural figure, what in this photo anchors him to the particular shifts in the culture?

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Gun Violence Photo December 18, 2012

Can’t Bear to Look: Why the Media is Full of Distorted/Freak Photos of Adam Lanza

If we're going to learn from this tragedy, especially with all the question marks that exist, distorting Lanza's image beyond his already thoroughly internally-distorted self is a bad idea.

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The NFL and Newtown: Reflections on a Violent World

The nationalistic imagery stands out for me in the photo because I know how seamlessly it is woven into the fabric of the sport itself, especially in its most muscular, militaristic forms.

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Militarism Focus Photo December 17, 2012

Ft. Connecticut

Perhaps the issue is not just how to curtail the availability of assault weapons but how do we as a culture, overall, start to demilitarize?

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Newtown: Obama Meditating on Gun Violence

Seldom has the President appeared so emotionally raw, so out there alone with a clear line to cross.

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