Picture of the Day: Manly Beach
Of course, it's a typical example of sex as a news photo selling device, but it's notable, too, for the way it reads differently in the US.
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The Sound and the Furry: Is This a News Photo?
Specifically, a news photo delivers news content -- in contrast to "human interest photos" or photos that operate as "infotainment."
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Todd Heisler's Border Vision
What Heisler offers us is a larger eye – the reality that America and Mexico have a more unusual course and unavoidable interconnection.
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One Year Later: Josh Haner’s Pulitzer Winning Boston Marathon Bombing Photos and the "Terror War"
What makes Josh Haner's Pulitzer Prize winning photo story so powerful is the way it so closely and painfully evokes America's "War on Terror."
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Beyond the Photoshopping: Privilege, Poverty and the Washingtonian's Jay Carney Spread
If Jay Carney is the public face of the Obama administration, what his family is doing here -- the Washington area being the richest in the nation -- is demonstrating an obscene degree of plenty.
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Juxtaposition of the Week: Pakistan Toddler Criminals, Not Bug Splats
Two different photos from Pakistan featuring children have circulated widely.
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Art Photography vs. News Photography: Politico, Race and the "Other Washington"
Repurposing art photos capturing economic disparity in Washington DC, Politico turns them into into racial stereotypes about African-Americans.
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Clint Takes Empty Chair to Russia. (No More Fronting For Losers, I Guess)
With the waking of the Russian bear, and with the first stirrings of the US presidential season, too, Russian Esquire hits a home run in remixing its metaphors.
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On Pieter Hugo's Portraits of Reconciliation from Rwanda
It being both fair and audacious to call them couples, it feels like these pairs have been through hellfire, then grafted together.
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Syrian Battlefield Filled With Cameras … But What Are We Looking At?
What if I told you this photo was more related to Kickstarter than the overall fortunes of the Syrian rebels in a long running conflict with the Syrian regime?
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Obama, Ortiz and White House Photo Access: When You Can't Handle Your Own Pitching
But, where's the real substance here, with the White House so exercised that selfies are facing a ban? It has to do with two things, visual filibustering and this Presidency's obsession with popular and commercial culture.
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Remembering Anja Niedringhaus: She Was Ironic, Too
Her photography was often brilliant, not just as reportage, but as subtle commentary. If others have captured Anja the documentarian, the humanist or the advocate for women, these images demonstrate her gift for irony.
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At the Gates of Fort Hood
The expression that immediately and overwhelming ran through my mind was: "boots on the ground."
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Drones vs. Stones: A Mid-East Air War Visual Update
If both sides in the Israel-Palestine conflict are using drones, and the technology is such that even individuals can operate one, doesn't it stand to reason I'd find photo for both sides?
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More Mark Peterson Pix: Christie's Bubble
Or maybe, it's supposed to evoke an oracle.
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Some Random Thoughts on Charles Ommanney's Americans with Guns
At this point, they only strap on the babies to tweak the Liberals.
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MA370: Still Haunting
All it takes is the prompt it has something to do with MA370 and the mind starts going.
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Instagram Mining: whitehouse meets popefrancis
With world leaders and heads of state now standard fixtures on Instagram, I was curious about your take on each's version of the Obama-Pope, Pope-Obama meet up.
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