OKC Tornado Photos: Iwo Jima
Most powerful images make it to the forefront by also tapping into our cultural and visual memory.
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People Who Live in Glass Boxes: The Arne Svenson Tribeca Telephoto Controversy
How is it Svenson didn't know that, in a city build on wealth and status, money -- floating glass boxes or not -- also buys you transparency?
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Afghan War Pictures: Forward Equals Backward, Up Equals Down
the visuals of the war effort have descended largely into parody.
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Your Turn: Michael Liberace
What does it say when an actor, known for symbolizing ruthless corporate types, "goes the other way?"
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More Radiance from AP’s Charles Dharapak: It’s Not Easy Being Obama
The talented Dharapak uses the weather to frame a President battling D.C.'s political elements.
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Hansen’s World Press Winning Photo Not Fake… Just Unbelievable
Based on detailed scientific analysis, it has finally been established that a photo doesn't have to be fake to be incredible on its face.
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Closing Act: The Bangladesh Miracle
Whereas we all want to believe that the images of the previous eighteen days really matter, I'm afraid that the American media consumer is so tied to the warp speed of the news cycle that those hopes might already be gone with the wind.
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Gitmo Pics They Felt You Kinda Oughta See: "Internal Nourishment Preparation"
Torturing a man for information, or out of sadism or to keep him alive, is still torture.
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Dying for Brands: Among the Deep Affronts of the Bangladesh Factory Collapse (GRAPHIC)
What is particularly tragic is how photos of name Western brands pulled from the Bangladesh factory collapse relate to the image below.
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Burning Issues in California: All in One Frame
It's certainly one of the more simple and eloquent newswire photos I've seen in a while the way it juxtaposes two very large but visually separate politically-charged issues.
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Welcome to the New BagNews Originals
We want to welcome you to the relaunch of BagNews Originals, our original photojournalism section.
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Photo Update/NRA Annual Meeting '13: Guns in the Hands of Babes
Looking at the Reuters' edit, at least one visual story line is coming through strong and clear from the NRA's annual meeting in Houston.
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Sanford and Sons: Meet the Mistress
Perhaps the saddest political images I've seen this year.
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Marathon Terror Memorials
With loss and memory becoming so formalized now, it seems like each catastrophe or attack necessarily becomes branded -- to cities, to specific locales, and also to symbols or events they most logically refer to.
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Your Turn: World Trade Center Relaunch
Given the history, I was attracted to a number of different versions of the Trade Center spire being hoisted to the top of the new building.
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Seattle May Day Riot Commandos: What Looks Different
What Richard Reid did for the sneaker, it looks like the Tsarnaev brothers have done for the backpack.
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Picture of Tamerlan Tsarnaev Surfaces as Islamic Soldier?
If you weren't paying close attention, you might first think this photo circulating today shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, as a Chechen jihadist.
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