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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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Hindsight and News Photography: On a Bio-Hazardous Dallas Balcony
Unfortunately, one thing news photography is good at is second-guessing, especially when it comes to homeland security.
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Does Up-and-Coming Model With Unusual Skin Condition Take Us Beyond Diversity?
How much is Ms. Brown-Young's condition, as a beauty signature, more singularly about "the other?"
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Sensational Ebola Pictures: Those Aren't Astronauts
Its been too easy in the West to either ignore the Ebola pictures, or pull up a chair for the horror show.
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Climate Change: Finally Matter-of-Fact?
I wonder if we’re approaching a whole new level of acknowledgment and realism surrounding climate change.
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Tweeting the Baby: In 2 Pix, the Clinton Script for 2016
The picture on Hillary's feed has a complete campaign vibe -- formal down to the pearls.
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"Hands Up, Don't Shoot," Hong Kong Edition
From the photos I've seen, the youth in Hong Kong are deploying the gesture in a less complicated way.
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Photoville: War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things
Wars may be easy to get into (and easy to suppose as tactically and emotionally limited) but then the stains just keep spreading.
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Photoville 2014: Matt Black and California's Dust Bowl
Although the disjunction is not usually this surreal, in this image from 2001, Matt seems to almost pay homage to Hitchcock.
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Weaponizing the Burka
In this case, the extreme aggression is completely flipped through the language — repurposing a highly specific portrait as an act of character assassination.
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The BagNewsSalon at Photoville 2014: The Most Significant News Photos of the Year
Join us at Photoville 2014 for a distinguished panel and our reading and analysis of some of the key photos of 2014.
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Mother Earth Isn't White ... and Other Climate Change Protest Pics That Caught Our Eye
...Or, enough sightseeing, time to do something.
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Photoville 14: In Gezi Park, and in Space
These photos were taken in Gezi Park in Istanbul in 2013. I wanted you to see them for the way the exhibit translates them into space.
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From the Islamic State News Desk, Hostage-Anchor John Cantlie Reporting
This op-ed is as impressive for dialing back on the previous execution videos as for taking over a classically Western media format.
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"In Focus": Media Using Pentagon Pics As News Photos (Again)
The inference here is that a photo taken by a photojournalist for a news organization and one taken by a soldier to ennoble the military really has no difference.
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Sarah Stacke: Love From Manenberg
This is the first installment in an ongoing series by photographer Sarah Stacke about this suburb of Cape Town and her relationships there.
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The Kent State Massacre Sweatshirt: How Far Did Urban Outfitters Really Go?
We can all wag our fingers at Urban Outfitters while others feed the diet in slightly more ambiguous ways. We can all wag our fingers, but the sphere wouldn’t be the sphere without its pirates and villains.
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Sports Advertising: Meet You at Your Cubical
I've always been keen on that rare bit of news or documentary imagery that happened to be shot in the office.
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More Fashion Week: I'm My Own Grandpa
Beneath the quips, there's something really clever going on here.
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