You Know What's Strange About The Viral Photo of the Blacked-Out Eiffel Tower?
It makes you wonder (or makes me wonder, anyway) about rhythms in the universe.
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The Cartoonist's Response to the Terrorist Attack on Charlie Hebdo (and How Hard it is to Take a Joke)
The sphere was awash in cartoons and illustrations yesterday in response to the lethal attack on the French political cartoonist and satirist publication, Charlie Hebdo. This is a summary of the primary examples with some thoughts.
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A Year of Looking at News Photos
If you missed some or many of these entries, here are the pieces that kept visual media honest, made us all look deeper and longer at worthy images, and honored and took joy in the profession.
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Turning Backs On Turned Backs: The Second Funeral of Gunned Down NYPD Officers
If the NYPD compromised a second funeral of its gunned down colleagues, the media enabled them.
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The Rare Artful Stock Exchange Photo
An impressionistic picture from the trading floor invites feedback.
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America in the Age of Ferguson: A Child's Letter to Troops in Afghanistan
If the collection captures the day-to-day life of the war machine at holiday time, what it more inadvertently offers is food-for-thought about the country's social priorities and racial character.
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Here’s Hoping for Different Fireworks in '15
On the first day of this new year, let's hope for more constructive engagements and enlightened outcomes.
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Happy View Year from The Bag!
We at The Bag wish you all a year of thoughtfulness, peace and visual insight.
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Congress – Dysfunctional Pictures of the Year
If our broken political system represents perhaps the greatest threat to the American enterprise, why wouldn't this debacle be the source of endless feature images and photo galleries of shame?
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Pictures That Lead: Race and Law Enforcement a Lot More Complex Than NYPD vs. de Blasio
Media doesn't do the public or the culture any favors in focusing so overwhelmingly on street battles and gotcha imagery.
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Why We No Longer Have to See the Thing We’re Looking At
What’s brilliant about the photo that it’s as audacious and unique as it is inevitable.
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Our Person of the Year: The Rebel Fighter
More in the realm of coolness, so much for hearts and minds.
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Looking Back on '14 With Compassion and Depth
I've been continually moved this year by imagery that took difficult situations and found a deeper human element.
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It's One of the Best Pictures of the Year Because…
If media skews to the dark side, the gift of the photo is the reminder that life is how you look at it.
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Wedding Photography and Gun Fights: Quite the Timing, No?
The way guns can so quickly refigure domestic life, I wonder if members of this wedding party appreciated just how loaded this pictures is.
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NYPD Apostrophe "T"
If pro-police demonstrators were seen wearing t-shirts mockingly pushing back on the #ICan'tBreathe meme, yesterday's act has completely altered the atmosphere.
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Theater of War: Quick Takes on Sony's Surrender
Somewhere, Borat is laughing his ass off.
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With the Cuba Breakthrough, the One Thing You'll Be Seeing Plenty Of
Get ready for months of pictures of early model cars.
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