Losing Michael Brown to the Spectacle? — #Ferguson and the #Press
If the images and the tension, as seen through the photos and the media lens, felt more raw and spontaneous last week, I'm finding myself scaling back my diet of reporting and waiting for news.
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On that Picture of Obama Dancing During the Ferguson Turmoil
Until white right-wing critics suddenly become the official arbiters of political correctness, let's just say the President has many roles to play in public.
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News Photos, Victims of the Propaganda War
To the extent armies, governments, political parties and police departments have become active and increasingly sophisticated visual combatants and critics, the difference between news photography and propaganda is being lost.
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Irony of Ironies: Ferguson PD Offers Surveillance Pics of Michael Brown as “Smoking Gun"
Because when you step back, this photo impugns the intent of the Ferguson police and just lends more credence to the fear that they, along with that "named officer," have blood on their hands.
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On that Incredible Screen Shot of the Ferguson Protester Marked in a Police Laser Sight
In a single picture, it captures the double-bind, the bait-and-switch, the potentially lethal double-cross that can happen like-that on any doorstep or at any traffic stop.
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On the Snowden WIRED Cover Issue: Still Missing
At the expense of releasing to the public more "raw data," it's as if WIRED and Platon redact from us the actual man experiencing his actual and ongoing trials.
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Beyond the Hoodie: Michael Brown's Extended Arms
After the Michael Brown killing, the symbolism that emerges as standing for the systemic dehumanization of young black males is the gesture of extending one's arms to the sky.
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If it Loots, it Leads: Stereotyping the Police Shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson
For these acts and images to do more than express the release of anger over one more senseless killing is still another textbook example of America's racial and class polarization.
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The Art of War
Is America equipped to fight adversaries that do not follow traditional rules of engagement?
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From Plymouth, CA: Is This a News Photo?
As a sometimes series, we're interested in how much a particular photo has informational value...
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Philip Montgomery: From a Harlem Frame Shop
What’s impressive about the photo is how it has both a pre- and post-9/11 meaning.
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Gaza Parting Shots: Hamas Revealed, Israel No But(t)s
Fitting of perhaps the most (visually and politically) polarizing news event I can remember, the parting imagery from Israel and Gaza could not be stranger and more cutting.
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Why There Aren’t Any Photos of Hamas Fighters (and Why the NYT, Tyler Hicks and Photographers Have Been Unfairly Blamed)
Let's call it "the drone factor."
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On Carolyn Cole’s Striking Photo of an Injured Muslim Woman in Gaza
Speaking for myself, I can hardly remember a news photo of a woman in a chador laying injured, let alone lying down.
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Gaza: What One Side Sees and What the Other Side Sees (GRAPHIC)
While media consumers are bombarded daily with the most gut wrenching images of dead and injured Palestinians, especially children, the battle rages as to whether the images represent atrocities or collateral damage and the use of human shields.
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Elmo, the Illegal
But, when the coverage starts to pivot on undocumented immigrants and their identification as glorified panhandlers, the story and the photo assume a different inflection.
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Thoughts on That Beautiful Gaza "Leaflet Sky"
This photo just feels so wrong to me right now.
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Between Israel and Gaza, How the Pictures Could Possibly Relate
What does it even mean to do justice to the soul-crushing photos pouring out of Gaza and Israel these past three weeks? And then where does balance come into it?
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