It's always dangerous to read in, but my strong sense from the look and expression is that, knowing he has support, he was offering reassurance.
Continue ReadingWhat's interesting in the face of the disrespect is how nimble Aslan remains. Rather than becoming overly defensive or offensive, terse or tight, what you see below is a surprising breadth.
Continue ReadingIt's interesting to compare yesterday's shot with this early WH portrait focusing on the relationship.
Continue ReadingAfter the latest large-scale killing of Islamist demonstrators in Cairo, it's hard not to think that the military's surveillance technology and the characteristic features of that video imagery, is minimizing its propaganda value, particularly with an international audience.
Continue ReadingThe vehemence of the NY Times comes from the sense they got suckered. Looking back at The Times Magazine Weiner cover and photo story, however, that's debatable.
Continue ReadingLooking at a lot of news photos close together, you start to see patterns and connections you wouldn't ordinarily think about.
Continue ReadingSometime between Friday night and Sunday, we are changing over to a new format and site design -- and along with it, a new hosting and support strategy.
Continue ReadingThe combination of Weiner's masochism and the media on him like sticky paper has become excruciating to watch.
Continue ReadingIt is difficult to assign to art the role of producing, or the credit for realising social and political change - something that is in the end always the result of human efforts, and not reducible to the content of specific images.
Continue ReadingThoughts on the White House and the Romneys leveraging the hugely trending royal delivery.
Continue ReadingNow that I am engaged in a project about a specific neighborhood, documenting the demolition of a corner of Englewood to accommodate the major expansion of that freight yard, my photographic relationship to people is changing.
Continue ReadingIs Detroit a city in a lot of trouble? Of course it is. But to the extent the bankruptcy is also a wake-up call, the Reuters slideshow is a derisive post-mortem as well as a subtle expression of racism.
Continue ReadingPoliticians come and go whereas images of the cost are more indelible.
Continue ReadingSince Trayvon Martin's death, the article of clothing has come to represent the stereotyping of young black males. This week, it also became the envelope and container by which to express the sense of bias and omission of race from the Zimmerman trial and acquittal.
Continue ReadingTo the extent that this kid looks so small and exposed, so bloodied and bowed, so targeted by shooters and shooters alike, I wonder if Mr. Murphy and his counterparts aren't feeling now like they should have just finished the job.
Continue ReadingExaggerating and elevating the kid's likeability might arguably be justifiable if it leads citizens beyond the knee-jerk opposite.
Continue ReadingI don't presume to know Greenwald's thinking relative to his own move into the spotlight. Still, it's important to consider the trade-offs and the consequent risk to your image that come with this magnitude of exposure.
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