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Creature from the Fossil Fuel Lagoon
Chavez's photo draws on fantasy and imagination and then combines those qualities with "human industry," in both senses of the term.
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The Larger Reason China Wants to Strip Hong Kong Protesters of their Masks
By banning Hong Kong protesters from wearing face masks, China is also hoping to undermine the visual and the moral power of these disguises.
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Apocalypse (Then and) Now: Climate Crisis Channels the Bomb
On one level, the poster is just another creative climate change warning. On another, though, it’s a memory jolt to the boomers.
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Apartheid's Legacy From Here: The Photo That Struck Me Most At Photoville
I'm sure this scene is more nuanced in South Africa. But to see a photo in America of black kids eyeballing a white kid is exceedingly rare.
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Toxic Nationalism: The Tomb of the Unborn Soldier
The point was to rally the base. But by wrapping the American flag around an “unborn soldier,” the photo infuriated the right and the left.
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Chatting the Pictures: Saudi Show & Tell; Migrants Captured in Cotton Field; Greta, Obama Fist Bump
This week, we look at a Saudi wreckage display, migrants apprehended in a Texas cotton field, and the Obama/Greta Thunberg fist bump.
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Capturing the Audacity of Climate Youth
Most climate strike photos capture the passion and urgency of young activists. This shot speaks to their audacity.
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Salt Chimneys
These Dead Sea formations called "salt chimneys" crystalize around freshwater streams. They appeared with the drop in water levels, but nobody knows why.
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Chatting the Pictures: Amazon as World's Lungs; Hong Kong Lasers; Bulletproof Backpacks
This week, Chatting the Pictures looks at a viral image of burning lungs protesting the Amazon fires, Hong Kong protesters using lasers, and bulletproof backpacks.
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Remarkably Everyday Photos of a Gender Creative 9-Year-Old with a Passion for Drag
A gender creative 9-year-old who loves drag: photos that portray gender fluidity as its own norm.
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Trump Hospital Photo Ops after El Paso, Dayton Mass Shootings
We discuss photos made during the Trump's El Paso and Dayton hospital visits following mass shootings there, including a portrait with a baby survivor.
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Chatting the Pictures: Trumps with El Paso Baby; Hong Kong Airport Sit In; Elizabeth Warren in Iowa
Chatting the Pictures looks at the Trump portrait with the infant of El Paso massacre victims, the Hong Kong airport sit-in, and Elizabeth Warren in Iowa.
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The Disappearing Island: Censorship at Guantánamo Bay
How much censorship colors a NY Times Guantánamo Bay photo essay on censorship.
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There Won’t Be Blood: Gun Violence and Visual Censorship
In light of the consecutive mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton, we discuss how gun violence is covered by U.S. media in terms of what we see and what we don’t see.
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Migrant Mother and Child Stopped in Mexico; Greta Thunberg’s Look; Democratic Debate Show
This week, Chatting the Pictures looks at a migrant mother stopped in Mexico, a Greta Thunberg portrait, and a viewing room shot from the Democratic debate.
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Religious Persecution Survivors on the Oval Stage
We examine the political agenda behind President Trump’s Oval Office meeting with 27 survivors of religious persecution from around the world.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Squad; NOLA Flood; Drone Guns
This week, Chatting the Pictures looks at an elegant news portrait of "The Squad," the four Congresswomen under racial attack, and overly artful photos of the NOLA flooding and the French Bastille Day military parade.
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The Pence Migrant Detention Center Pictures: A Closer Look
A close look at the imagery reveals Pence’s political agenda, the tour following a wave of damaging pictures surrounding the migrant crisis.
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Chatting the Pictures: Jeffrey Epstein Protest; Megan Rapinoe SI Cover; Migrant X-Ray
This week, Chatting the Pictures looks at young women protesting Jeffrey Epstein, the Megan Rapinoe Sports Illustrated cover, and another disturbing immigration photo.
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CTP one video
Chatting the Pictures is a weekly, micro-edition of the Reading the Pictures Salon. In each 25 minute webcast, co-hosts Michael Shaw, publisher of Reading the Pictures, and writer and historian, Cara Finnegan, meet to discuss three prominent photos in the news. “The News” shot this week was a Nike...
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