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Those Sensual Typhoon Pictures from the Philippines
I understand high contrast color is the new normal, but applied to disaster photography and extreme distress amidst exotic scenery, why does it feel like the stimulation is subsuming the information?
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Augmented Mannequins Figuring Prominently: The Globalization of Barbie
As the Times tells it, the mannequins are the brain child of factory owner Eliezer Alvarez, who “created the kind of woman he thought the public wanted—one with a bulging bosom and cantilevered buttocks.” The strategy worked.
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"Biracial Gag Response" In Pictures: A Little Jenga For the 13%
I'm pretty sure the glue that connected Cohen to Romney in my head was the Gallup 13% biracial disapproval stat being bandied around married to Mitt's self-inflicted brouhaha over America's deluded 47%.
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Remember When Obama Was the Guy Who Best Knew How to Get There?
What the photo reveals, then, perhaps more clearly than any other so far, is the strength of Obama's leadership -- especially, in-house -- in the face of multiple tremendous challenges.
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Typhoon Haiyan: Early Pictures
Once again, it's not looting if people are starving and have no alternative.
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Arafat's Dirty Laundry. (Ours, Too.)
Now feel free to chalk all this up to TMI, but you have to keep in mind how they best tested if Arafat had the polonium in him.
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Twin Towers. Jetliner. Man Leaping.
Maybe I'm too sensitized to political images -- and their echoes.
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The "O" is for Obese: Take-Aways from TIME's Christie Elephant GOP Cover
Seriously, if you're really overweight and you have to stand next to that cover in the checkout line at CVS this week, you're collateral damage.
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David Schalliol from Chicago: How Do You Photograph the Emergence of Nothing?
How strange it is to live in a new place without even moving.
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Christie: Election Catchup
Sailing with those moderate winds at his back, I imagine he's savoring the slap down.
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Fact is, We Can't Get Enough of Hitler
Whereas conventional wisdom is to abhor Hitler, especially in an institution of art, today that's exactly what he has become.
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The Last Photograph
You would probably agree that the category this photo aligns with is "environment." That doesn't mean, however, that we can't start slipping around and go somewhere else with it.
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An Attack That Was Waiting to Happen: Guns and the TSA, in Pictures
By displaying inert and disarmed weapons, the TSA emboldens the very critics they would hope to pacify.
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LAX Shooting: James Franco Is Safe
I'm looking forward to more updates on Saturday, with pictures, from @jamesfrancotv.
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Obama to Bits
The way Businessweek programs it, the problems with the healthcare website are as much a metaphor for Obama's status overall
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Amnesty International's Hyper-Local and "Hyper-Visual" Public Service Denouncements
If the goal was not just to drive traffic to AI and increase the organization's brand but to also cause people to "imagine it there,"does it create that result, or does it yield a more resistant reaction?
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My Lai, Sexual Assault and the Black Blouse Girl: Forty-Five Years Later, One of America’s Most Iconic Photos Hides Truth in Plain Sight
What are we to make of this erasure, one that indicates sexual violence in the light of day? And why is it that most Americans readily recognize the “Napalm Girl” but not the “Black Blouse Girl?”
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I'm Glad I Spent it With You: On the Passing of Lou Reed
Like always, Reed used these three categories typically ascribed to the artist -- personal destruction, recovery and transcendence -- as just more ironic material.
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Saudi Women: Driving Home the Point
How nice (and stereotype-defying) to see men also giving a nod.
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