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The Munitions Factory
My question is, why did this photo stand out so powerfully from the larger edit of 10-year-old Issa working in a Syrian rebel weapons factory?
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Why All the Syrian Execution Imagery in the Major Media Lately? (GRAPHIC)
I would say that these images represent the inclination, on the part of the West, to paint every faction in Syria with a broad bloody brush.
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Alan Chin in Lower Manhattan: 9/11 Turns Twelve
Good hack and lensman that I am, I fight for access to restricted areas, bemused that the young men and women in uniforms who see journalists as intrusive adversaries have no idea that, the dozen years back, I was here too.
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Is USPS 50th Anniversary March on Washington Stamp Based on Steve Schapiro's Jackie Robinson Photo? and What Would That Mean?
In this day and age in which events are so thoroughly produced and packaged, how strange to consider that the iconic figure wouldn't be identified and co-branded with that event, that a person's celebrity wouldn't be utilized to transfer their personal shine to the event in question.
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James Whitlow Delano – Third Dispatch: Tribes Losing Rainforest Battle to the Logging Conglomerates
We found the Penan building yet another barricade along the main logging road. Yet, loggers always come back with bulldozers and sweep aside any barrier in their path.
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Guns vs. Butter: DC Poor Lose Homes As Syria Debate Drowns Out All
The story of Mr. Coleman and the loss of his home over $134 is a troubling counterpoint to the consuming debate in DC and the press over war with Syria.
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (Without Your AmEx Card)
The galloping anxiety right now surrounding war, dangerous brown people in the Middle East, electronic surveillance, privacy and security agency breaches offers the perfect storm for those Orwellians on Madison Avenue to scare you into, what else, much stronger brand identification.
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If Your Average US Citizen Could Make Sense of this Photo....
Given the scope of religious and cultural branches spanning the Middle East, this photo actually presents the Western media consumer with an Arab and Islamic world political knowledge quiz.
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Will this (Random, Dated) Snuff Video Prevent the Attack on Syria?
With respect to everything at stake here, the bar for decisive imagery remains much higher.
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Impressive Level of Artificial Sweetener: Obama-Putin St. Petersburg Body Language
It's such a supreme example of pretending, it's the mutual recognition of the exercise that ultimately makes the contact authentic, even intimate.
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Before and After the Bombing Starts: The Disconnect in 2 Pictures
It seems some variation of that Mike Tyson "best laid plans" quote is on a lot of minds these days.
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What's So Impressive About Joe Raedle's Climate Change Slide Show at the Denver Post
Like it or not, the photo story defies the simplistic treatment of the doomsday piece. If surprising for how politically incorrect it is, Greenlanders seem to see more than a silver lining to climate change.
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White House Syria Crisis: Kerry/Hitler vs. Rumsfeld/Hussein
I'm sure this photo of Kerry and Assad drudged up by Drudge is going to get plenty of attention -- along with the resuscitation of how many Kerry French jokes and Kerry Assad-Hitler citations.
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White House-Syria Crisis: Obama/McCain
Maybe this really was a case of getting the photographer in and out that quickly, and Souza grabbed -- and the communications people published -- the best of what he got.
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White House Flickr: Looking for a Leg Up on Syria
My sense of Saturday’s White House Flickr shot is that the President is trying, perhaps a little too hard, to compensate for the perceived foot dragging — as if looking for a literal leg up on the situation.
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Anti-War Protests and the Media Stage. (Or: Assad Gets Around)
These discs might be accessible at the click of a button, but the uniformity and the geography makes me appreciate how much al-Assad gets around.
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Fast Food Strike: Can We Please Speak to the Clown in Charge?
One thing evident from the gallery is how nameless and faceless these corporations really are.
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How Much Before it's Enough? Another Pressing Photo from Damascus.
With so many citizens having died so suddenly and anonymously, these prints stand as much for those trapped in the shells of their homes, their own cars, their own bodies.
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Ready to Punish Assad, Cameron as Action Figure
If we're in another one of those countdowns where the time for temperance is somehow running out, this photo perfectly sets up the lizard brain.
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Scenes From Chemical Weapon Inspections in Syria … and a Ten Year Itch
What makes these images of UN weapons inspectors on the ground in Mouadamiya, Syria so powerful is how much they also evoke the Bush Administration's 2003 rush to war. Actually seeing UN weapons inspectors allowed to do their jobs following the horrifying mass event last week in Syria is...
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