Egypt's Muslim Sisterhood: How We See Them or How They See Themselves?
Veiled and separate, the women depicted in this Time photo essay are political players who note their inequality even while participating in it. Is it simply a Western view or are these photographs slightly subversive?
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The N. Carolina Marriage Amendment: Feeling the Loss
If there is a bright side, perhaps the photo also alludes to future involvement and activism.
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Newsflash: Franco Still Dead and Obama Still Black
The real news here is that swift boat season is underway!
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Loaded Images from a St. Petersburg Abortion Clinic
I look at them closely and feel glad neither of them are forced to be mothers at a young age.
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Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Acceptance in One Photo
You have to read the caption to understand the situation, but once you do, you get a glimpse of how real-life America has incorporated what the media feels is outside the norm.
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“Mao” like Mao than Martin
MLK’s sculpture portrays a monumental, stern, and even defiant Martin Luther King. Somewhat at odds with the Jesus-like makeover the press has given him.
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A Feast of Famine Pictures From Somalia … and What a Photo "Ought to Do"
Times’ Executive Editor Bill Keller says photographs like this “ought to disturb us, at least.” But if that’s all he’s asking a photograph to do, to deliver the “concern” in “concern photojournalism,” Keller (and Salon) are missing the point.
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The “Fukushima 50”
I find the photos interesting in their anonymity -- consistent, I assume, with the way Japanese orient to the group as much as Americans obsesses over the individual, and look high and low, even more intensely since 9/11, for "the hero."
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Hostage Crisis?
Maybe it was Paladino's nervous mannerisms, his reference to "brainwashing," the hovering religious fundamentalists, or his frequent inability to look up from the "script" handed him, but "captive" was a word that came to mind while watching the Paladino speech at Karlsburg Rabbinical College in Brooklyn Sunday.
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Obama: It’s a Dog’s Life
Did Obama's canine reference signify real push back, or are we making more out of it than just one riff.
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