Why that NYT Liberia Photo, Reflecting an Ebola Treatment Unit in the Mirror, Was so Contagious
The media panic has involved massive injections of fear regarding viral replication, contagion, and the ultimate displacement of death, so perhaps an image of photographic doubling can contain some of the excess emotion.
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The Shooting at the Canadian National War Memorial: What's Going to Last
More than anything, what has been fundamentally altered as a result of yesterday’s events is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier that 24-year-old Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was assign to guard and defend.
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About Race and those Ebola Handheld Thermometer Pictures on Western News Sites
Given the “loaded nature” of the objects and the situation, there are certainly ways to capture a scene like this that is not only more sensitive (and more mundane), but steers clear of the exploitive associations to race and violence.
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News Photos: Has Lack of Context Reached a Tipping Point? (And Ferguson Protesters Did WHAT w US Flag?!)
Essentially what we have from a media standpoint — a picture worth a thousand words, and the caption not that many -- are black people rampaging with Old Glory.
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Obola: Visual Attacks on Obama Pick Up Where Kenya/Muslim Slurs Left Off
Almost seven years down the road from the election of the first black American president, in many respects it seems we're back where we started.
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Hong Kong: The Umbrella As State-of-Mind
As the signature of a movement enduring dismemberment , the umbrella ceases to be just one more umbrella, just as the wire cutters cease to be just a tool.
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Nostalgic for Anthrax
At least, I'm sure the Secret Service has all the entrances secured.
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Wage Slaves and Fatal Naps
There are many dramatic events and concerns that fill the visual news window every day. The despair of the low wage hourly worker isn’t the first one that comes to mind.
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The Battle for Fangirls '16. Or: "Look Dad, it’s Hillary Fuckang Clintaaaaaaaan!!!!"
On Hillary Clinton and the early contest for the hipster millennial female swing voter.
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Mashup of the Day: Hands Up, Don’t Shoot
Maybe it’s relevant for drawing together the two biggest visual stories in the news stream right now — both involving blacks at risk.
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A Simple News Photo from Hong Kong Calls out the Economics
n this age of Citizens United, oligarchy, marauding socialist market economies and free markets aligned with the value of "all-for-one," when do you ever see a protest photo that captures and illustrates the enterprise system itself — as opposed to the crackdown in the streets in defense of that...
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And We'll Get Back to Those Slain Black Youths Right After Baseball
It’s a troubling commentary on our cultural and media priorities that the civil rights story and the playoff hoopla have been so seamlessly grafted.
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Benedicte Kurzen's Complex and Mysterious Photo from Ebola-Stricken Monrovia
This is one of the richest, most curious and most suggestive editorial photos I've seen in a while. I'm interested in your thoughts.
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…And on the Home Front, U.S. History Activists Go Full Norman Rockwell
If the optics coming out of Hong Kong over the past few weeks make visual democracy look like a western export, it’s worth pausing to notice how the look and feel of civil dissent is taking shape out west.
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Media-Wise, Could Everyday Africa Change Everything?
If Everyday Africa and the rest of the "Everyday" sites can maintain their momentum, a revolution is coming to photojournalism and visual news.
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Hong Kong: He Says Umbrella Revolution, She Says Post-it Note
If the umbrella is a more functional item, the Post-It note is more reflective of the word, the voice, a multiplicity of voices -- and social in the old fashioned way.
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Abdullah's 100 Yard Prayer Rug: The Visual Landscape of Faith and Violence in Sports and the NFL
The NFL's missteps must become opportunities to address the symbols of violence that the league promotes. Can Abdullah help us do that?
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Soul Searching Photos Replace “Shock and Awe” as Defense Industry Leads Us into Next Iraq War
As we roll almost mutely into another war, there is no end of high-priced hardware once more ready to burn.
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