A Reflection on Trauma, Coronavirus, and 9/11
I never thought I'd see or have to deal with a cultural trauma as profound as 9/11, but the coronavirus has proved me wrong.
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On Melania Trump’s Official White House Portrait
Melania Trump, and a White House visual convention.
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On Those Re-released FBI 9/11 Photographs
It's a cold practice "dropping" this still-wrenching material this way. These images, like so many others rushed through the news stream, deserve more.
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Memory, Poetry and Politics: Thoughtful Views from Instagram on the 15th Anniversary of 9/11
Far from the ash and the fireballs, we've collected a group of Instagram photos that evoke 9/11 in a more poetic, historical and/or political way.
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Wire Services, Instagram and Migrant Despair: Woohoo!
Publishing more colorful, interesting and entertaining photos to Instagram, are media organizations doing justice to hard news?
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On 9/11: A New Ground Zero Photo. Five Kids on Bikes.
This remarkable photo, taken 9/12/01, is even more interesting appearing in a year wracked by racial protest and the emergence of #blacklivesmatter.
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How to Understand the Newly Released 9/11 Photo of Dick Cheney with his “Foot Up”
Anyone reading a smug indifference, even if that's characteristic of Cheney most of the time, would understand at some level that it’s misattributed here.
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Hashtag Mining: 911museum
Is the 9/11 Museum a memorial or is it, ultimately, an art museum, cultural temple and design artifact?
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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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You Too Can Become an Insta-War Photographer in Syria – GRAPHIC
This piece glorifies the "Bevis and Butthead" idea that any couple of fools can have a harrowing experience like this and live to (sell it to VICE and) tell the world about it.
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Tracking Pope Francis: Rockin' the Modest
Dear Pope Francis. Congrats, you're off to a flying start.
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Alan Chin in Lower Manhattan: You Said You'd Never Forget
Alan Chin's moving photo-essay on the 9/11 anniversary losing its significance with images side-by-side of the near-completed Freedom Tower and his father's photo of the original World Trade Center under construction.
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Mitt Photo-Op of the Day: Solar Eclipse
Mitt, playing for soundbites, upstaged by a building.
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NYPD "Snatch and Grab" Tactics Illustrated (and, Why the Pics are So Scarce)
If the bandwidth for reporting, visual and otherwise, is all too narrow, it's also true news photographers almost always have a lot more truth to show and tell.
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Our 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Portrait … Going the Other Way
Thankfully, friend and brilliant photographer, Mario Tama, sent me this a couple days ago, a photo unique out of the 9/11-remembrance constellation, if for one thing, by simply managing not to take itself too seriously.
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Alan Chin: Through the Champagne Spray – Report from Ground Zero upon bin Laden’s Death
A crowd gathered at the World Trade Center site (Ground Zero) to celebrate after President Obama announced the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
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Libya and The Obama Doctrine
This AP shot is actually pretty clever in the way it captures Obama's philosophy above a sea of tough looking faces.
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Alan Chin: Not Exactly a Party
As opposed to more critical or outlandish portraits of Tea Party rallies, Alan Chin's photos speak to the emotional underside of the so-called movement.
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