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A Picture of Poverty Tourism that Still Means Business
Far too often, photojournalists take pictures that support commercial, rather than journalistic, interests. Instead, a photojournalist should go for another angle that presents the hypocrisy.
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Reading the Tribute Photos: Mandela's Masterful Body Language
How effective was Mandela as a craftsman in social space? Well, let's take a look.
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The Most Important Michelle Obama Photo Ever, Clarified
I understand the formula involves an ultra-superlative in every post title, but in this case, "Most Important" is less having, or even making fun of Michelle Obama than writing her off as a fool.
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An (Extreme) Meditation on our Virtual Times
To the extent we live so vicariously today, I couldn't imagine a more ingenious photographic parody of modern times.
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Those "Upside Down" Pictures from Kiev: Citizens Cracking the Whip in Ukraine?
With mass protest and iron fisted crackdowns sadly common newswire fare, there was something curiously different about the images from Kiev's Independence Square.
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Relative Vantages (and Advantages): Souza and the Photo Media Go to the Bookstore
In light of ongoing tension between the White House and the press over visual access to the President, I was interested in Saturday's post-Thanksgiving photo op from the D.C. bookstore, Politics and Prose.
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I'm Thankful … I Didn't have to Photo Edit That
Once upon a time, picture quality had everything to do with you fiddling skills with the rabbit ears.
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I'm Thankful … For the Pepper
Beyond the funky Thanksgiving morning amuse bouche, I think it's wonderful how subtly this pivots us into the holiday season.
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I'm Thankful -- from Dealey Plaza
Over the next four days, I'm sure there'll be six or eight things I'm thankful for.
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One More Commentary on the Cell Phone
Of course, anything could be happening here. Still....
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Racism as Style: The Return of Blackface
It's becoming increasingly difficult for me to overlook the tremendously casual manner in which fashion photographs repeat the ghoulish visual history of racism as style.
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Your Turn: Riot Cop Fantasies
How odd is it that these two pics, one from Bulgaria, the other from Italy, surfaced within the same week. More significantly, what are we to make of them? For thoughts, we're turning things over to you.
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Pic of the Day: White House's Crass (Visual) Response to Media's Photo Access Protest
If the White House intended even a half-respectful gesture, they would have provided access to the president yesterday in a spot that was personal, doing something personal.
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We Are All Bystanders: 18 Visual Scholars Reflect on Previously Unseen JFK Assassination Photographs - #3
We at BagNews were interested in bringing a deeper visual analysis to the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Accordingly, we invited a broad group of distinguished visual scholars to provide us with brief responses to unknown photographs from November 1963. This is the last of a three post...
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On the Move: 18 Visual Scholars Reflect on Previously Unseen JFK Assassination Photographs - #2
We at BagNews were interested in bringing a deeper visual analysis to the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Accordingly, we invited a broad group of distinguished visual scholars to provide us with brief responses to unknown photographs from November 1963. This is the second of a three post...
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Downward Like a Lightning Bolt: 18 Visual Scholars Reflect on Previously Unseen JFK Assassination Photographs - #1
We at BagNews were interested in bringing a deeper visual analysis to the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Accordingly, we invited a broad group of distinguished visual scholars to provide us with a brief response to a photograph from November 1963. This is the first of a three...
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Rita Leistner: Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan #3 - The Life after Death of Skeuomorphism
For the first time in history we are making photography and writing on the very same tool. The affected and algorithmic images of the smartphone draw attention to the devices they are made on, and for me, at least, have opened a portal between image and text that I...
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Obamelot: The Kennedy Mojo as Early Visual Juice for Obama's
With the Kennedy aura now under the microscope, it's interesting to appreciate its contribution to the Obama "HOPE train" during America's financial death spiral, including how the two auras visually fed each other.
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On That Open Carry Parking Lot "Shooting"
Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t help seeing (that profile) view as a targeting, and exactly the angle that a real enemy would take. More to the point, we can see how the potential for violence invites a greater potential for violence.
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