Visual Politics of Profile Photos: Walter Scott and Michael Slager Side-by-Side
The examples are interesting in illustrating how, through distributed or pick-up photography, the visual media will visually represent and often stereotype by role, circumstance and manner as well as ethnicity and race.
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On the Hillary Announcement and Logo
With the abundant comparisons to FedEx, what's telling right off the bat is that categorically, it's more corporate than populist or even political -- by miles.
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Selfie of the Week — Crossing the Starting Line First
To the extent the selfie is equated with self-absorption, this one goes the extra mile.
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The Drought Doesn't Discriminate by Class or Ethnicity: Balazs Gardi in the Central Valley
After all the sensational and stereotyped coverage of the immigration issue, Gardi's photos parse Mother Nature from Beltway nature.
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Telling Moments From the Video of the White S. Carolina Police Officer Murdering a Black Man
What most stands out for me is Slager checking Scott for a pulse after the second officer just checked for one.
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On Damon Winter's "Divided" Photos of California's Water Crisis
The question is: how much is the photo more static and dread-laden, and how much is it more "fluid"?
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Iran Portraits in the NY Times; "Kissing Kerry" on the Telly in Social Media
What continues to fascinate, looking at major news stories, is the relationship between professional photojournalism and its barefoot cousin, the public Twitter, Instagram or Facebook picture.
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"What's Up" at The Dallas Museum of Art: Sculpture Imitates Life?
With everything in our increasingly technological, innovative and cataclysmic world as fodder for the camera, tell me it's not getting harder to make sense of what's sticking out anymore.
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Loaves and Fishes
It's not that this photograph or this scene from Gaza is unique at all. What so impactful is its resonance this Holy Week, today being Good Friday.
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Lunch Break, Or Worse
In these Chinese industrial towns, perhaps a little shut eye, a little shade and a little cardboard adds up to something completely practical.
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The Anti-ISIS "Coalition" and the Fiction of One Iraq: The Flags Tell You All You Need To Know
You can read any number of articles describing how Iraq and its military is a fiction. But the reality is fluttering right there in the wind.
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Girl With Scarf — or a Mutation?
I just can't help seeing a second face in the picture.
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Waves Like Mountains: Viral Nature Photos in the Age of Climate Change
The article explains the power and interest in these pictures in terms of their ability to capture the "raw, majestic, natural power of the sea.” But, could there be more at play here?
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Military Photo Awards: Taking Some Ownership on Domestic Violence
One glance is enough to appreciate the photo as tacit acknowledgement of the military’s rampant sexual harassment and abuse problems.
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Obama at the Science Fair
It’s an indication of Obama’s self-assuredness that he tried out the goods in front of a room-full of news photographers at this year’s White House Science Fair.
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High Hopes for '16 Optics … as we Launch by Cruz
Knowing that photographers and the public are expecting more creativity, more storytelling and more editorializing out of their news photography these days, I'm hopeful Campaign '16 will allow for visual reveals.
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On Der Spiegel's Jolly “Angela Merkel and the 7 Nazis” Cover
What’s going on, if you ask me, is the use of exaggeration and a bit of mockery to minimize the Greeks.
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