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That "Grahams to Sell The Post" Front Page
It might be Bezos' deal, not Amazon's, but this still has Web 2.0 written all over it.
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Major Embassy Terror Threat -- and the Chance for the Pictures to Really Show Us Something (Sigh)
The decision to close that many embassies wasn't trivial. What I was curious about is whether the visual media might actually extend itself beyond stereotyping, fear mongering or sensationalizing to really elaborate the threat.
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Defacing the Lincoln Memorial, How Quaint
In contrast to the near-daily stream of ingenious protest messaging, the primary audience for this green scrawl was primarily the National Park Service or DC police. ...
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Watertown Redux? Cops, not Feds, Raid House in New York Somewhere
Being that the Atlantic Wire is the bomb, and last Thursday a story about the feds raiding a house in Suffolk County, New York over a Google search went completely viral, we were wondering what you thought of this photo and layout.
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Rita Leistner: Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan #2 - That Indecipherable Taliban Message
The importance of man’s oldest technology—language—is all but ignored in modern military training. And yet, military conquest and empire building has always been connected to language.
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Everywhere and Nowhere: Egypt President's Ubiquitous "Disappearance"
Perhaps the strangest plot twist of the Egyptian overthrow is the public erasure of President Morsi -- the physical version, that is. Otherwise, Morsi's presence has been ubiquitous.
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Post Verdict: Bradley Manning in First Light
It's always dangerous to read in, but my strong sense from the look and expression is that, knowing he has support, he was offering reassurance.
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Reza Aslan/ Lauren Green: FOX With the Sound Off
What's interesting in the face of the disrespect is how nimble Aslan remains. Rather than becoming overly defensive or offensive, terse or tight, what you see below is a surprising breadth.
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Beyond Lunch: Hillary and Obama Then and Now
It's interesting to compare yesterday's shot with this early WH portrait focusing on the relationship.
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Those Egypt Military Propaganda Videos: The Look of Blowback?
After the latest large-scale killing of Islamist demonstrators in Cairo, it's hard not to think that the military's surveillance technology and the characteristic features of that video imagery, is minimizing its propaganda value, particularly with an international audience.
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The Case of The NY Times Vs. the Weiners and a Closer Look at that Times Magazine Spread
The vehemence of the NY Times comes from the sense they got suckered. Looking back at The Times Magazine Weiner cover and photo story, however, that's debatable.
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Things You Ordinarily Wouldn't Notice in the Daily Picture Flow: "First Responders"
Looking at a lot of news photos close together, you start to see patterns and connections you wouldn't ordinarily think about.
Continue ReadingThe Next Bag: Our Latest Redesign
Sometime between Friday night and Sunday, we are changing over to a new format and site design -- and along with it, a new hosting and support strategy.
Continue ReadingWeiner, the Media and the New Yorker Cover: Without the Copters, You Don't Get a Kong
The combination of Weiner's masochism and the media on him like sticky paper has become excruciating to watch.
Continue ReadingDetroit, Braddock and the (Powerfully) Indeterminate Nature of the Image
It is difficult to assign to art the role of producing, or the credit for realising social and political change - something that is in the end always the result of human efforts, and not reducible to the content of specific images.
Continue ReadingCampaign 2012 Redux: Royal Baby Tweets
Thoughts on the White House and the Romneys leveraging the hugely trending royal delivery.
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David Schalliol from Chicago: From a Focus on Buildings and Landscape, Photographing People
Now that I am engaged in a project about a specific neighborhood, documenting the demolition of a corner of Englewood to accommodate the major expansion of that freight yard, my photographic relationship to people is changing.
Continue ReadingSlamming Detroit
Is Detroit a city in a lot of trouble? Of course it is. But to the extent the bankruptcy is also a wake-up call, the Reuters slideshow is a derisive post-mortem as well as a subtle expression of racism.
Continue ReadingOn That Viral Shot of the Syrian Refugee Camp in Jordan
Politicians come and go whereas images of the cost are more indelible.
Continue ReadingAfter the Zimmerman Trial: Hoodie Comes into its Own as Cultural Symbol
Since Trayvon Martin's death, the article of clothing has come to represent the stereotyping of young black males. This week, it also became the envelope and container by which to express the sense of bias and omission of race from the Zimmerman trial and acquittal.
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