Alan Chin from the Memorial Service in Newtown, CT: Different This Time?
Perhaps what's unique about the Newtown shooting massacre, and the photos of this memorial service, is the widespread recognition of its utter familiarity.
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Connecticut Elementary School Shooting
If there's a signature photograph to emerge out of today's horrific school shooting in Connecticut, it's this one.
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Best Photos of 2012, And Why — #1: Amber Waves of Grain Meet the Apocalypse
As any political communications expert with tell you, one of the most cherished and patriotic American visuals you can include in a campaign video is that of a wheat field.
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Juxtaposition of the Day #2: Don't Tell Gandhi
Gandhi, workers rights and the corporation state.
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Obama, the GOP and a Bookend Pair of "Pics of the Year"
Call it "the view from the tarmac.
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Hotel Maid Nafissatou Diallo: Reuters Pool Photographer Seth Wenig’s Brilliant Portrait
What I see is brilliant -- a photo capturing the hotel maid, Nafissatou Diallo, looking quite alluring, actually, in this sea of headless male, male, male power suits.
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Domestic War: A Not-So-Innocent Shot from Michigan's "Right to Work" Protests
The power of riot helmets seeming to germinate amongst the file cabinets shows us how ephemeral boundaries are when the suppression of progressive movements are involved.
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How Do You Photograph Homeless for Newswire So People Actually Notice?
Here are three different moves in a photo package from Getty by photographer Brendan Sullivan illustrating: "Homeless Numbers Remain Unchanged From 2011 Despite Increase In Funding."
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The Machine Gun Gun Show
Perhaps what's so captivating about these photos is the pleasure of the pure release of power.
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With SCOTUS To Rule on Prop 8, Checking in on Visual Media and Gay Innuendo
That these scene become more familiar and even "run-of-the-mill" makes it only natural that images of male and female affection becomes less stigmatized and less tagged as outlying or even "gay" or "lesbian."
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Obama: The Opposition Is Hard to Make Out
Certainly, there is no reason to doubt it was noisy. Still, combined with the rather dismissive nature of the photo of Obama's lunch with Romney at the White House, the fingers in the ear and the balancing on the chair are fun to think about.
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French Eco/Youth/Farm Revolt: What Protest Looks Like Now?
Pictures from this fight over between "the man" and the protesters over the commercial development of dwindling open space makes for strange viewing. Is living in an increasingly visual and media-rich culture leading to more powerful and evocative depictions of protest?
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That TIME Morsi Cover, Dictator-Size
Although the backstory by the editor-at-large ascribed all kinds of political mystique and geopolitical weight to Egypt's new president, TIME's choice to feature him on the cover in a super-closeup looks mighty awkward a couple weeks later.
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Bradley Manning Fit to be Tied
Is this court drawing the illustration of a suicide risk, or the government's fantasy to do the job itself?
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Romney's Bargain Days
Expect the Romneys to star as "the icons of bargain days" -- at least until the paparazzi get tired of chasing them around.
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Doom in America: What The NY Post Subway Death Photo Is Really About
If there's a deeper critique of the photo, it's that the catalyst and real subject of concern is missing.
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The "New" George Zimmerman Picture: Black and White in Color
This photo just released by the Zimmerman defense team seems to tell us less about the murder than about the limits of photography, particularly the problem of context and the inherently emotional quality of pictures.
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