If the White House intended even a half-respectful gesture, they would have provided access to the president yesterday in a spot that was personal, doing something personal.
Continue ReadingWe at BagNews were interested in bringing a deeper visual analysis to the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Accordingly, we invited a broad group of distinguished visual scholars to provide us with brief responses to unknown photographs from November 1963. This is the last of a three post...
Continue ReadingWe at BagNews were interested in bringing a deeper visual analysis to the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Accordingly, we invited a broad group of distinguished visual scholars to provide us with brief responses to unknown photographs from November 1963. This is the second of a three post...
Continue ReadingWe at BagNews were interested in bringing a deeper visual analysis to the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Accordingly, we invited a broad group of distinguished visual scholars to provide us with a brief response to a photograph from November 1963. This is the first of a three...
Continue ReadingWith the Kennedy aura now under the microscope, it's interesting to appreciate its contribution to the Obama "HOPE train" during America's financial death spiral, including how the two auras visually fed each other.
Continue ReadingI understand high contrast color is the new normal, but applied to disaster photography and extreme distress amidst exotic scenery, why does it feel like the stimulation is subsuming the information?
Continue ReadingI'm pretty sure the glue that connected Cohen to Romney in my head was the Gallup 13% biracial disapproval stat being bandied around married to Mitt's self-inflicted brouhaha over America's deluded 47%.
Continue ReadingWhat the photo reveals, then, perhaps more clearly than any other so far, is the strength of Obama's leadership -- especially, in-house -- in the face of multiple tremendous challenges.
Continue ReadingOnce again, it's not looting if people are starving and have no alternative.
Continue ReadingNow feel free to chalk all this up to TMI, but you have to keep in mind how they best tested if Arafat had the polonium in him.
Continue ReadingMaybe I'm too sensitized to political images -- and their echoes.
Continue ReadingSeriously, if you're really overweight and you have to stand next to that cover in the checkout line at CVS this week, you're collateral damage.
Continue ReadingSailing with those moderate winds at his back, I imagine he's savoring the slap down.
Continue ReadingWhereas conventional wisdom is to abhor Hitler, especially in an institution of art, today that's exactly what he has become.
Continue ReadingYou would probably agree that the category this photo aligns with is "environment." That doesn't mean, however, that we can't start slipping around and go somewhere else with it.
Continue ReadingI'm looking forward to more updates on Saturday, with pictures, from @jamesfrancotv.
Continue ReadingThe way Businessweek programs it, the problems with the healthcare website are as much a metaphor for Obama's status overall
Continue ReadingIf the goal was not just to drive traffic to AI and increase the organization's brand but to also cause people to "imagine it there,"does it create that result, or does it yield a more resistant reaction?
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