Photojournalism on Acid? — Google’s Neural Networks and a Post Deleted after WaPo's Armadillo- and Dog-Faced Treatment of the GOP Pack
Here we see GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump addressing reporters in an Alice in Wonderland world where loud bursts of patterns and color turn faces and neckties into dogs, ears into eyeballs, and hair into turkey vultures and armadillos.
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Myth Of The Self-Inflicted Wound: A Deeper Look At That Photo Of The Crying Greek Pensioner
In spite of how touching the story might be, the photograph also achieves something all together more troubling.
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Are We Seeing A New Level of Candidness from Campaign Photographers This Year?
I'm grateful to Brooks for this shot, as much as I'm hopeful this candidness blossoms into a real trend.
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The Last Chapter of S. Carolina's Confederate Flag Debate
These photos stood out to me as being particularly symbolic in still another historic week for human rights.
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Everything Wrong (Including Yes, Journalistically) With The HONY Gay Schoolboy Photo
For a (self)-publisher who has disavowed any similarity to the media, the pairing of this photo with that quote at this point in time demonstrates, in no uncertain terms, an editorial decision to post material with no editorial context.
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More Drama, Less Reality: The Case for Fake War Photography
The staying power of US war culture depends on a citizenry that keeps its distance from actual warfare.
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On Those Presidential Campaign Selfies
What a twist of fate that the phenomenon of mobile photography would force presidential candidates -- on-the-spot, and over-and-over-again -- to have to actually cater to the will of the people.
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July 4th Special: Pick Your Flag
Scanning the newswire heading into the July 4th weekend, I came upon two photos speaking to today's flag politics, not to mention a serious fissure in "one nation under God."
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The Horror
Does this Reuters shot (from Jeb's campaign kickoff) look like a Hitchcock still?
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Why it's Fair Game for Getty to Tweak Christie as Gay (and for AP to Depict Ted Cruz with a Gun to his Head)
It's important to emphasize that the creation of news photos and editorial decisions about what to put on the wire do not take place a vacuum.
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TIME and Photo Booth: Two Takes on Cosmetic Surgery and the “Opening Up” of Photography
It’s hard to understand the point of capturing artificiality when cosmetic surgery is being presented as a ubiquitous commodity.
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Amazing Grace: Key Scenes From Obama to Newsome, ACA to Pride
And with the funerals and the dignity emanating from Charleston in the aftermath of the racist church massacre in Charleston, what with Obama's sermon, Bree Newsome and the two momentous Supreme Court decisions, by the weekend, it was like "ACA Meets Pride Meets Black Lives Matter."
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On That Selfie Stick Gay Marriage Photo by Marcus Yam
One thing it says is that our cultural rituals and practices keep evolving and refashioning themselves.
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That Less Circulated Statehouse Photo Honoring Clementa Pinckney
As we witness Pinckney’s colleagues grieving for him in session, we feel for him, too, as a member.
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Two Rambos, and that New Treasure Trove of Bush – Cheney White House Photos
What's great about these images the National Archives were compelled to turn over is just how politically incorrect they are.
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I Wanted to Like that NYT Photo Essay About Growing up with Gay Parents
As a parent viewing the photo essay, I felt a rush of defensiveness and worry. As a visual scholar, I wanted to understand why.
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On Pointing a Handgun Directly at Ted Cruz's Head
These photographs make a point by turning the gun lobby's central argument back onto itself. If "more guns" is your only response to rampant gun violence, then at some point a law of averages dictates that innocent people are going to end up in the line of fire.
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