Colbert: Fit to Be Untied
What we're seeing in this photograph is the look of a person who's reached a tipping point.
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Climb Every Mountain, Ford Every Stream: Beyond the Humanitarian Response to the Great Migration
If humanitarian fervor and photos of the migrant crisis dominated last week like nothing else, this largely invisible image served cleverly, if silently, as a counterpoint.
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The Crisis of Leadership
Perhaps what the crisis images ultimately highlight are the abject limits of our governing systems, our leaders and our humanity.
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Christian Conservative “Counter Logic”: That Kim Davis Photo and God’s Law
This photograph of Kim Davis denying gay people equal treatment under the law by appealing to the dictates of her own conscience is a picture of the snake eating its own tail.
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On Obama in Alaska and the (Visitor) Showers at Auschwitz
My takeaway from the White House photographs of Obama’s trip to Alaska, and the photos of the outdoor misting stations at Auschwitz, is pretty similar
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Why We Saw the Photo of the Israeli Solder Giving the Palestinian Boy a Headlock … Not Fighting a Girl
It’s not just man vs. child, especially female child, that exposes the state. It’s also the sense the otherwise omnipotent soldier might actually be over his head.
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Conceptualizing the Migrants
What’s striking to me is how the news imagery of the world-wide migrant crisis is all over the map when it comes to representing these individuals.
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Greenwald on the Depiction of Trump and Ramos as Mirrors
The image seems to specifically key off Greenwald’s criticism of a WAPO article drawing an equivalence between Ramos and Trump as provocateurs.
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The Virginia TV Murder and the Cincinnati Cop Video: The Larger Gesture
With eyes out for symbolism, that arrangement of the hand and fingers is as representative and fraught as any other in this country today.
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More Katrina in Retrospect: Blinded by the Light
The question we asked at the time, and we're asking still, is why the photos published inside the Superdome were so artful and distant?
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Since Katrina, What’s So Different? — Outside the Crawfish Shak
One thing that characterizes a good deal of these retrospectives is the sense that: that-was-then-and-this-is-now. What stands out to me is how much the racial schism then mirrors the racial schism today.
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On the TIME Trump – American Eagle Shoot … Beyond the Ha, Ha, Ha
If you get too (or completely) distracted by Trump, either through offendedness or amusement from the farce, you’re going to miss the deeper take-away here.
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Newswire Pix: Were it Not for the Culture of Surveillance
I doubt this random newswire photo would have enjoyed the same kind of distribution were it not for the present-day security state.
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Why We’re Changing Our Name
Our choice wasn’t difficult, considering we’ve actually been using this phrase as a tagline since, well... that Bush-Kerry election.
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Campaign 2016: The Rapture
If we can be less dogmatic for a second about our own jadedness, what is divine is that hope is still out there.
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When Different Wire Photos on Same Story Address Different Racial Audiences: “Go Set a Watchman”
Who, between these photos, is invited to see themselves as Watchman’s audience?
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The 1% Two Ways
If the term “two Americas” (or two Londons, or, in this case, two Shanghais) is largely understood as a metaphor, what are we to make of it here?
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On the Photo Coverage of the One Year Anniversary of the Ferguson Crisis and the Death of Michael Brown
I was looking and hoping for imagery that got underneath the more stereotyped depiction of violence, anger and despair.
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