On the Empire State Building Endangered Species Spectacular: I Want to Believe
I want to believe that what I’m experiencing here is demonstrably more than just do-good shock-and-awe.
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Photojournalism on Acid? — Google’s Neural Networks and a Post Deleted after WaPo's Armadillo- and Dog-Faced Treatment of the GOP Pack
Here we see GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump addressing reporters in an Alice in Wonderland world where loud bursts of patterns and color turn faces and neckties into dogs, ears into eyeballs, and hair into turkey vultures and armadillos.
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Myth Of The Self-Inflicted Wound: A Deeper Look At That Photo Of The Crying Greek Pensioner
In spite of how touching the story might be, the photograph also achieves something all together more troubling.
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Watch This Digital Life
When it comes to organizing daily patterns of mobility and interaction, our machines steer us around just as much as we do.
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Lunch Break, Or Worse
In these Chinese industrial towns, perhaps a little shut eye, a little shade and a little cardboard adds up to something completely practical.
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Photojournalism and Public Trauma: Safe Travels
If we can't even trust our own pilots, is there anyone or anything left that we can depend on to assure our safe travels?
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For Crying Out Loud: The Visual Politics of the Vaccination Photo
Now that vaccination has become the latest political football in America’s ideological and culture war, the injection photo really does carry some weight.
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What War, Terror, Racial Tension, Climate Change? The Anxiety Underneath This Year's Kinder, Gentler Super Bowl Ads
I'm wonder how much of the softer, lighter, funnier and friendlier focus of many of these ads was actually a reflex to buffer the consuming public from the social tension and political anxiety that has formed an almost steady drumbeat since last November.
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The Excess of Super Bowl Weekend Summed Up in One Picture — from Friday's Wing Bowl
If you want an image that encapsulates a cultural milieu that enables the commercial success of Sunday's big game, skip the sports page and take a look at these photos from the Super Bowl's lesser-known, but just-as-indulgent cousin.
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That Deflate-Gate Photo, Focused Appropriately
Yes, phallic associations abound in this story — and given the NFL’s travails, are fully deserving.
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The Serenity of Networks
Instead of seeing only competition, friction, and another day’s work, we can see the deep sense of decoration: how the small ornament can mirror a cosmos.
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The Rare Artful Stock Exchange Photo
An impressionistic picture from the trading floor invites feedback.
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Theater of War: Quick Takes on Sony's Surrender
Somewhere, Borat is laughing his ass off.
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The Glass Ceiling and Gwyneth Paltrow's Legs
Of the 25 people named in the photo, only five are women and only one is a prime mover in an industrial company.
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Punching Out a Monet
With such disparity in our otherwise elegant world, the puncture seems fitting of the times.
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Wage Slaves and Fatal Naps
There are many dramatic events and concerns that fill the visual news window every day. The despair of the low wage hourly worker isn’t the first one that comes to mind.
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A Simple News Photo from Hong Kong Calls out the Economics
n this age of Citizens United, oligarchy, marauding socialist market economies and free markets aligned with the value of "all-for-one," when do you ever see a protest photo that captures and illustrates the enterprise system itself — as opposed to the crackdown in the streets in defense of that...
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Abdullah's 100 Yard Prayer Rug: The Visual Landscape of Faith and Violence in Sports and the NFL
The NFL's missteps must become opportunities to address the symbols of violence that the league promotes. Can Abdullah help us do that?
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