Conservative Backlash Gets Visual in White House's Soldier – Taliban Prisoner Swap
The deal to trade Bergdahl for five high profile Gitmo detainees threatens to dust off the visual genre of the "war on terror," a vocabulary that has been more in remission.
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The Santa Barbara Shooting Rampage … and How They're All Running Together
The crime scene still taped and the blood barely dry, members of the media historicize another driveway, lawn or storefront and ennoble another witness or survivor telling his or her tale.
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Juxtaposition of the Day: A Sporting Look at Brazil's Social Goals
Though the comparison between goal posts on the beaches and in the slums is implicit, the captions downplay the distinction.
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Hashtag Mining: 911museum
Is the 9/11 Museum a memorial or is it, ultimately, an art museum, cultural temple and design artifact?
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Looking at (People Looking at) Andres Serrano’s Homeless Portraits
A powerful effect of the installation, intentional or not, is to pique our curiosity as to how, and how much, people do or don't engage with the imagery.
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Another Photo from Isla Vista Saturday: Murder, and a Woman on Skateboard
What I’m wondering is, why was this photo so popular and in what way does it relate to the story?
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Visual Media, Misogyny and the UCSB Shooting: The Alpha Phi “Upskirt” Shot
Is the objectification of women so entrenched in our culture and media that it's inescapable, even in the visual reporting of this extraordinarily troubling story?
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Pope Francis at the Separation Wall
The natural recipient of awe, it's that rare to see the Pope ceding this much power to anything.
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The Rare Memorial Day Photo: Balancing Remembrance with Just a Holiday
What I admire about these photos by Getty’s Nicholas Kamm is how fully they capture and balance both themes.
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World Cup Picture of the Week: You Can't Eat Soccer Balls
Do you know what I liked best about this Sao Paolo graffiti art that went viral this week?
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Central African Gunman Loose in Paris … Fighting for Photography
It's interesting to see this group take photojournalism, as a provocative exercise, to the streets. I just can't tell if this photo has their back or not.
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War, Politics and Disability: Tammy Duckworth's VA Scandal Interview Photo
What’s disturbing is when objects -- especially those of deep emotional and moral value -- become the framing elements for political equivocation.
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Growing Old in Prison
If you didn't know the context, you wouldn't know these men were inmates or that the images had anything to do with the penal system.
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Concern and Eroticism: Wire Services Warm Up for Brazil and World Cup
Here comes the World Cup -- and the effort by Western visual media to create a simultaneously vital and salable picture of the Brazilian social and political landscape.
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Missing the Big Picture: How Cecily McMillan, Convicted of Assault, Was Violently Assaulted by NYPD at M17 Occupy Protest
What is curious about Cecily McMillan's ordeal is that, in spite of the mountain of critical fragments that were captured and published, the visuals have failed to focus the public mind around a smoking gun.
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Ask Not What a Meltdown Can Do For You
If her father was revered for concentrating America on the moon, cultivating a national optimism out of a technological and patriotic savvy, what a long fall we've had.
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Bring Back Our Girls … From the Digital Divide
What the girls represented was a blind spot -- active evidence that the web isn't, in fact, omniscient, and our digital experience -- as much as it feels like the essence of inclusivity -- is overwhelmingly exclusive and exclusionary.
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Reality Show President: Inside the White House PR Machine
In producing this just-under 12 minute video, ReasonTV draws on quotes from BagNews to illustrate how thoroughly the White House controls Obama's visual image.
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