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Fading Force: Has Trump Lost His Edge in His Court-Defying Visual Strategy?
Recent court losses are eroding Trump's ability to dominate the photo coverage of his legal troubles. Expect his control of the narrative to weaken as the damage sets in.
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Chatting the Pictures: Trump on Trial
We examine how Trump, despite his astonishing legal woes, turns his court appearances into photo-ops and how the images play in his parallel universe.
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Throwing Shade: The Disturbing Visual Fallout From the Special Counsel's Attack on Biden's Competency
The Special Counsel’s questioning of Biden's cognitive abilities has unleashed a raft of negative imagery. The media's use of undermining photos risks biasing public perceptions and spreading ageist stereotypes. It's crucial to present more balanced visuals.
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The NFL’s Shattering Collision With Climate Denial, With Some Swift Notes
In our video, we dissect quarterback Patrick Mahomes’s helmet shattering in an NFL playoff game, one more sign of the impact of climate change despite the media’s neglect of its broader implications. By Michael Shaw Call it the elephant in the stadium. Inspired by the Super Bowl, watch our...
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Chatting the Pictures: The NFL’s Cold, Hard Collision With Climate Denial
Call it the elephant in the stadium. Inspired by the Super Bowl, we riff on a shattering hit with zero impact.
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Chatting the Pictures: Personal Meets Political in Undersea Climate Change Portraits
We survey the powerful blending of portraiture and landscape and the brilliant tension between domesticity and disaster in this photo project.
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Chatting the Pictures: Mourning Embrace in a Gaza Hospital
We discuss the photo's anonymity and intimacy, as well as other images of the woman and child to personalize the interconnection of grief and loss.
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Chatting the Pictures: On a Gaza Playground, Seized by the Peril of Fighter Jets
The photo, timeless as it is specific, embodies the instinctual reactions, sustained fear, and psychic harm to children lacking true refuge.
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On Photography, Oct. 7, and Palestinians Under the Gun in Jerusalem
Philip Perdue examines Jerusalem news images after the Oct. 7 attack, showing how camera angles shape views and have moral consequences.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Israeli Hostage Poster
Analyzing the posters of abducted Israelis, we examine their format, 9/11 parallels, wide circulation, and how they inform Israeli unity.
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Chatting the Pictures: Libya's Climate-Fueled Flood at Epic Scale
With an expert perspective, this photo vividly conveys the immense scale of the climate-supercharged flooding in Libya.
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Chatting the Pictures: A Portrait that Dares to Expose Musk’s Madness
We do a deep dive into a daring photo that reflects Elon Musk as a supervillain and potentially mentally disturbed.
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Nolan Trowe’s Wheelchair Perspective Highlights Disability Activism
Wendy Kozol looks at how Nolan Trowe's images from a wheelchair provide a unique vantage of disabled activists in the halls of Congress.
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Chatting the Pictures: Coexisting with a Steadily Rising Sea
In the video, we contrast the vibrant elements of this Javanese portrait with the irony and cultural loss from the advance of climate change.
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Climate Activism’s Death Valley Daze
Climate activists have been otracized and left morally burdened by the lack of mass, top down acknowledgement of global heating.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Climate's Dark Harvest
As striking as it is ominous, this disorienting photo is a powerful indictment of the social and environmental impact of extreme heat.
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Disrupting Trump's Mug Shot and His "Singular Genius"
The treatment of Trump's mug shot is vital to consider, given the potential of the George conspiracy case to reshape his public identity.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Fate of Twitter in a Single Shot
In the video, we into the symbolism of the dismembered logo, the visual dynamics of the replacement “X,” and the live bird and the “BlueSky.“
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Barbiecore is Litmus Test in Post-Roe America
Barbie has become the summer's leading political symbol. Leslie Hahner on that astronaut portrait and Barbie’s projection in political space.
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Chatting the Pictures: Israel's "Democracy SOS"
We note the scale and urgency of the "judicial coup" protests in Israel and their failure to garner international attention.
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