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Anxiety's All the Fashion
Hollywood, Madison Avenue, 7th Avenue. They've all gotten pretty good at co-opting the anxieties and calamities of the times to move their wares, haven't they?
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On the Beautiful Instagram of the DC Car Chase, the Killing of the Runaway Dental Hygienist and the Hoepker 9/11 Photo
Coming on the heels of the rampage at the Naval Yard a couple weeks ago, this Instagram photo the media was instantly buzz-feeding over reminded me of the Thomas Hoepker photo from 9/11.
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Thoughts on Afghan Girl's Third Cover Appearance as National Geographic Looks Back, Forward
Has the same portrait ever appeared on the cover of a major US magazine even twice, not to mention three times? Still, it's not exactly clear to me why she's on the anniversary cover.
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Playing from Behind, GOP Wins Day 1 Shut Down Optics Battle
Repubs and tabloid-style news organizations are using images of Clinton and Lewinsky to represent the last time the government shut down.
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First Reflections on the Shut Down
Both images call on Americans to consider the day's events in terms of the county's larger legacies.
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Andrea Bruce and the Paradox That's Damascus
Capturing the domestic anxiety of the civil war.
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Rise of Ted Cruz Best Captured (Fleetingly, Anyway) by Medieval Christian Iconography
On the brink of a government shutdown, the next act of a fractured Congress, and the rise of a great right hope, it's not like these aren't perfect days for religious visual metaphors.
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Hillary: Like Any Good Rorschach
Of course, in the contemporary media landscape, being old is a far greater crime for women than is being inauthentic.
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Putting Those al-Shabab Terrorists to Shame
Now that the shooting phase is over, we enter the spin room.
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Photo Requests from Solitary: S. Martin Luther King Drive and E. 63rd Street
First pass, I was not just struck by the emptiness – or, the quiet here, but I was concerned by it.
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Things to be Concerned About in the Mall Attack Photos from Nairobi (GRAPHIC)
Another way to understand the danger here has to do with infusing horrific news images with irony.
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Brand on Fire (Or: You're Not the Boss of Me!)
Consider why Brand chose to riff on the link between the Nazi's and "an irrelevant menswear supplier." And absorb his admonition to trust in yourself and those around you to try and get your feel back.
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The Pope With the Sound Off
Why is Francis "the coolest Pope ever?" Because, at least so far, the actions speak for themselves.
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The Naval Yard Shooting Photo That Wasn't --Then Was
Because our goal is to promote visual and media literacy, The Atlantic's summary of these photos is something to take note of.
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Have You Ever Seen the Uncropped Version of the "Napalm Girl?"
So my question is: was this photo cropped entirely for effect? for simplicity sake? or, because the nonchalance of the soldiers would have been like a second napalm hit?
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Times Square Tweet Carnage: Where We (and Twitter) Are Now
Today, Twitter is much more of a gawking and tabloid territory, the happenstance procurement of a slice of trauma or celebrity functions as much or more like a trophy, the posting and engagement less an act of witnessing than voyeurism.
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BagNewsSalon - Photoville '13: Photojournalism in Flux (with Video Highlights)
This BagNews Salon, to be held at the 2013 Photoville photo festival in Brooklyn, examines eight photos that have either been the subject of debate or relate to current issues surrounding the practice of photojournalism.
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Sweet Damascus
So the photos from Syria the past year or so have been a little weighted toward Aleppo and, recently, the Damascus suburb of Gouta. On that diet, of course, one would only think that apocalypse reigns.
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No Photos by Women Photojournalists In Syria & Brown Miss America Freak Out: 2 Reasons BuzzFeed Starting to Piss Me Off
Here was a perfect opportunity to show us a women or multiple women journalists, for goddsakes, actually covering the war in Syria -- though I understand it might have taken about a minute to find one.
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Security the Pressing Thing
Seems you can't look over your shoulder, in the rear-view mirror or in the reflection of a puddle without seeing some reminder, allusion, suggestion (thought broadcast?) about the surveillance and security state.
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