July 4th Special: Pick Your Flag
Scanning the newswire heading into the July 4th weekend, I came upon two photos speaking to today's flag politics, not to mention a serious fissure in "one nation under God."
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The Horror
Does this Reuters shot (from Jeb's campaign kickoff) look like a Hitchcock still?
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Why it's Fair Game for Getty to Tweak Christie as Gay (and for AP to Depict Ted Cruz with a Gun to his Head)
It's important to emphasize that the creation of news photos and editorial decisions about what to put on the wire do not take place a vacuum.
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TIME and Photo Booth: Two Takes on Cosmetic Surgery and the “Opening Up” of Photography
It’s hard to understand the point of capturing artificiality when cosmetic surgery is being presented as a ubiquitous commodity.
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Amazing Grace: Key Scenes From Obama to Newsome, ACA to Pride
And with the funerals and the dignity emanating from Charleston in the aftermath of the racist church massacre in Charleston, what with Obama's sermon, Bree Newsome and the two momentous Supreme Court decisions, by the weekend, it was like "ACA Meets Pride Meets Black Lives Matter."
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On That Selfie Stick Gay Marriage Photo by Marcus Yam
One thing it says is that our cultural rituals and practices keep evolving and refashioning themselves.
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That Less Circulated Statehouse Photo Honoring Clementa Pinckney
As we witness Pinckney’s colleagues grieving for him in session, we feel for him, too, as a member.
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Two Rambos, and that New Treasure Trove of Bush – Cheney White House Photos
What's great about these images the National Archives were compelled to turn over is just how politically incorrect they are.
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Dylann Roof and His Point-and-Shoot
It's as if Roof is reminding us he wouldn't have attained anywhere near the fame and notoriety without the power and ubiquity of photography today.
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Front Pages That DIDN'T Turn the Charleston Shooter into a Poster Boy
We could stand for more recognition of those papers that largely ignored the perpetrator in favor of elevating the victims and affirming existing bonds.
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Suddenly, Assad Not Such a Bad Guy?: On TIME’s Exclusive Photos of ISIS – Syrian Battle
The question here is how to evaluate the informational value of the story against its propaganda value.
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Why You’ve Gotta Love Heisler’s Photo of Trump’s Announcement
If the GOP has set a particularly low bar this presidential cycle, my early sense of the photojournalism is the opposite.
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Yes He's All In, But Is Jeb Somewhere Else?
Watching Bush's campaign announcement was interesting ... and strangely odd.
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A Photo's Reach: Barbara Davidson Revisits the Navajo, Eddie Adams and Capa, Too
With the understanding that photojournalism is timeless, Barbara Davidson's photo both offers an update and invites great comparison.
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It Went Viral, But Why?: Hillary's 1st Instagram
If you said, because it's patriotic, that's too easy.
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The Screen Shot to Consider BEFORE the Cop in McKinney Pulled his Gun on Black Teenagers
Perhaps it starts with questions like: who and where are the adults?
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What's Familiar and Different about the First Scenes of S. Korea's MERS Outbreak
Given the impact on Seoul, it's a threat that is all-too-easy to visualize in the west.
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