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Media Focus Photo November 22, 2013

Pic of the Day: White House's Crass (Visual) Response to Media's Photo Access Protest

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.

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Culture Focus Photo November 21, 2013

We Are All Bystanders: 18 Visual Scholars Reflect on Previously Unseen JFK Assassination Photographs – #3

We 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...

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Culture Focus Photo November 20, 2013

On the Move: 18 Visual Scholars Reflect on Previously Unseen JFK Assassination Photographs – #2

We 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...

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Downward Like a Lightning Bolt: 18 Visual Scholars Reflect on Previously Unseen JFK Assassination Photographs – #1

We 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...

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President Obama Photo November 18, 2013

Obamelot: The Kennedy Mojo as Early Visual Juice for Obama's

With 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.

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Disaster Focus Photo November 16, 2013

Those Sensual Typhoon Pictures from the Philippines

I 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?

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Campaign '12 Photo November 14, 2013

"Biracial Gag Response" In Pictures: A Little Jenga For the 13%

I'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%.

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Remember When Obama Was the Guy Who Best Knew How to Get There?

What 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.

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Disaster Focus Photo November 11, 2013

Typhoon Haiyan: Early Pictures

Once again, it's not looting if people are starving and have no alternative.

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Arafat's Dirty Laundry. (Ours, Too.)

Now 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.

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Photo November 8, 2013

Twin Towers. Jetliner. Man Leaping.

Maybe I'm too sensitized to political images -- and their echoes.

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The "O" is for Obese: Take-Aways from TIME's Christie Elephant GOP Cover

Seriously, 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.

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Campaign '12 Photo November 6, 2013

Christie: Election Catchup

Sailing with those moderate winds at his back, I imagine he's savoring the slap down.

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Terror Focus Photo November 5, 2013

Fact is, We Can't Get Enough of Hitler

Whereas conventional wisdom is to abhor Hitler, especially in an institution of art, today that's exactly what he has become.

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Disaster Focus Photo November 4, 2013

The Last Photograph

You 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.

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Media Focus Photo November 2, 2013

LAX Shooting: James Franco Is Safe

I'm looking forward to more updates on Saturday, with pictures, from @jamesfrancotv.

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Business Focus Photo November 1, 2013

Obama to Bits

The way Businessweek programs it, the problems with the healthcare website are as much a metaphor for Obama's status overall

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Advertising Watch Photo October 31, 2013

Amnesty International's Hyper-Local and "Hyper-Visual" Public Service Denouncements

If 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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