From the Islamic State News Desk, Hostage-Anchor John Cantlie Reporting
This op-ed is as impressive for dialing back on the previous execution videos as for taking over a classically Western media format.
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"In Focus": Media Using Pentagon Pics As News Photos (Again)
The inference here is that a photo taken by a photojournalist for a news organization and one taken by a soldier to ennoble the military really has no difference.
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The Kent State Massacre Sweatshirt: How Far Did Urban Outfitters Really Go?
We can all wag our fingers at Urban Outfitters while others feed the diet in slightly more ambiguous ways. We can all wag our fingers, but the sphere wouldn’t be the sphere without its pirates and villains.
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Sports Advertising: Meet You at Your Cubical
I've always been keen on that rare bit of news or documentary imagery that happened to be shot in the office.
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More Fashion Week: I'm My Own Grandpa
Beneath the quips, there's something really clever going on here.
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9/11: Remarkably, A Photo of the Towers From Thirteen Years Away
I wouldn't have imagined seeing a photo yesterday -- initially, a Twitter blip amidst the moments of silence, the first responders, the enormous flags in the football stadiums, the burning embers, the falling men -- that would actually cause me to look on that day anew.
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Fashion Week from an Untrained Eye: Shots of Models Eating
The most engaging view of culture and politics right now might be on or around the runway
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What's Up With Those Middle East Edition Businessweek Covers?
I don't know, looking at these covers they seem unusually inflamed.
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How the Pictures are Killing Us: The Dynamics of the Sotloff and Foley ISIS Videos
If the Foley and Sotloff videos felt like a piercing blow, if just from the bloodless screen shots, what is it that so pierced us?
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America from the Outside: Nixon's Prop Wash by Jean-Pierre Laffont … and Annie Leibovitz
What caught my eye was this version of Nixon's final departure from the White House. Of course, it couldn't be more different then that iconic scene hardwired into the America consciousness.
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Compassionate Conservatism: Damon Winter’s New Photos from Gitmo for The NY Times
The new wrinkle is on how the prisoners are allowed more contact with each other as long as they demonstrate good behavior.
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On that Photo of the Police Dog Funeral
The image made me pause for a moment and consider how quick we are to draw comparisons, to generalize and to judge.
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On the NYT Mag "Abortion by Mail" Cover
The significance of the new NYT Mag cover (if you read the article) is to simultaneously describe, announce and usher in the next incarnation, and a still greater degree of discretion and control for women over their reproductive destiny.
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Obama Fluff, Perfectly Suited
Actually, Obama's summery change up was nothing short of a rescue.
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Readjusting our Eyes After the Bloody Summer We've Had
As we stagger toward the merciful end of this cataclysmic summer, what's instructive is context, or how much the eye sees what its been conditioned to see.
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What That Picture From Michael Brown's Funeral Does That Few Photos Ever Do
If we're talking about the tone of a news photo, which we often do, we're either addressing its visual gradations or it's emotional quality, not something audible.
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On Publishing Photos of a Public Execution by Hamas Fighters: Still More Ethical Questions
As we’ve been asking in instance after instance over many months now, where is the line between news and propaganda? between reporting and enabling? between editorial responsibility and corporate self-interest when it comes to publishing such material?
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Ferguson: White Fantasies
I was completely captivated by this white male cop helping the white female cop strap on her helmet, the trunk and the doors of the patrol car protecting "the couple" like a dressing room.
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