Fact is, We Can't Get Enough of Hitler
Whereas conventional wisdom is to abhor Hitler, especially in an institution of art, today that's exactly what he has become.
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An Attack That Was Waiting to Happen: Guns and the TSA, in Pictures
By displaying inert and disarmed weapons, the TSA emboldens the very critics they would hope to pacify.
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LAX Shooting: James Franco Is Safe
I'm looking forward to more updates on Saturday, with pictures, from @jamesfrancotv.
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Amnesty International's Hyper-Local and "Hyper-Visual" Public Service Denouncements
If the goal was not just to drive traffic to AI and increase the organization's brand but to also cause people to "imagine it there,"does it create that result, or does it yield a more resistant reaction?
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On Banksy's NY Residency: Respect to 9/11
I know the man works quickly so I can't tell how much he intended the petals to appear blackened but it speaks eloquently, both to the horror as well as the re-emergence.
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On That Viral Red Sox Home Run Photo on the Boston Globe Cover (and What it Has to Do With the Marathon Bombing)
The overcoming of adversity relates not just to Boston but the country, baseball being America's game.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bradley Manning's Lawyer on the Unfairness, and Dignity, We Weren't Allowed to See
What his lawyer wanted us to know is that Manning, against the stereotype of him as diminutive and weak, behaved with dignity and grace under enormous pressure. If allowed, photographs and videos would have reflected that on the air and front pages everywhere.
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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.
Continue ReadingReady, Aim, Backfire: Police Photographer's "Rolling Stone Retribution" Photos
To the extent that this kid looks so small and exposed, so bloodied and bowed, so targeted by shooters and shooters alike, I wonder if Mr. Murphy and his counterparts aren't feeling now like they should have just finished the job.
Continue ReadingRolling Stone Boston Bomber Cover. Hmm, We Liked It.
Exaggerating and elevating the kid's likeability might arguably be justifiable if it leads citizens beyond the knee-jerk opposite.
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