Indictment Special: Our Visual Roundup of the Week

A visor to the president. 📷@drewangerer #Manafort #IndictmentMonday #RussiaGate pic.twitter.com/xF6gc6mt9i

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) October 31, 2017

This week’s visual news was dominated by the first charges brought in the Trump Campaign Russia investigation. Our coverage focused on the indicted campaign chair, but we were also interested in the surprise charges brought against a Trump campaign foreign policy advisor. Nothing like tying his Russian connection, and his presentation of it to Trump, to a meeting photo the President-elect actually tweeted. Then, we posted some Getty photos that seemed to anticipate Kushner also getting charged.

Also this week, we saw more visual cracks in the Trump, and the Republican wall. The Jeff Flake retirement photo was particularly ironic. Still, the Democrats (by way of that NYT Mag cover) didn’t come off any better.

This week saw more demonstrations of cultural extremism, especially evidenced by white power rallies in Tennessee. We saw progressive signs also, from the Pope, to Trudeau’s son’s Halloween costume, believe it or not, to a brilliant visual critique of news photos stereotyping Iran.

Finally, a near-full page photo on the cover of The New York Times indicated to us how visuals continue to play an ever-larger role in the media culture.

Smart photo editing. Isn’t putting on credentials, and the effortful attempt, at the core of double dealing? @reuters #Manafort #Indictment pic.twitter.com/lVZJDjYcau

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) October 30, 2017

 

So you know what posters show, right? Trump’s DC Post Office hotel. Have a little collusion w your emoluments. #Papadopoulos #RussiaGate pic.twitter.com/vdXcM7H964

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) October 31, 2017

 

Hmm, @GettyImages #Mueller indictment pkg rt now contains just 4 pix: 1 FBI sedan & 3 of #Kusher leaving for work. How do you read that? pic.twitter.com/2vaedcXMGW

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) October 30, 2017

 

Lit @Reuters pic leads @businessinsider “sour on Jared” post. Like 1 of those @Time cover #Trump fireball heads. https://t.co/wiFp3XsQNo pic.twitter.com/GljSwRIj2n

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) November 1, 2017

Should viz media be enabling #Melania anti-bullying photo ops? What does that teach? https://t.co/6RhF7QVob5 @detroitnews #BloomfieldHills pic.twitter.com/s9Bm0WnvzH

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) October 30, 2017

 

Off stage and out of uniform, lets you contemplate Trump as just some zoned out old guy. 📷@andyharnik #thatmanbehindcurtain #TrumpNational pic.twitter.com/wpJsCZA1jW

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) October 29, 2017

 

Maybe the new Camelot is just being done with it. @JeffFlake @RollCall pic.twitter.com/OQpt9fPyma

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) October 25, 2017

 

Indictment of personality politics, messenger over message. (Trump still milking this.) Desperate for a face, Dems next page lacks WORDS. pic.twitter.com/Cl7dQ5lUah

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) November 2, 2017

 

When one letter changes everything. Via @coverjunkie: @metro changed their logo last week #MeToo pic.twitter.com/oc3rEH3Gpi

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) October 21, 2017

 

Well, it depends on how you define “armed.” 📷@evelynpix #Shelbyville #whitelivematter pic.twitter.com/GdrzAsW2dF

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) October 30, 2017

 

Rare to see a five-column photo dominate @nytimes front page. shot by @AFergusonPhoto in Nigerian pic.twitter.com/pvqS2csCfT

— Sam Dolnick (@samdolnick) October 26, 2017

Why is the q. Traditionally, size/width a function of story importance. To us, this is major statement about rising impact of visuals alone. https://t.co/9zrXblcIRX

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) October 26, 2017

 

As viz inspiration (while we muck it up), @Pontifex @Space_Station discuss fragile planet, world beyond borders. https://t.co/PUO5WNd4nx pic.twitter.com/6FopTk5E9U

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) November 1, 2017

 

I didnt want to make this like a headline yesterday but I think it is rad as hell Trudeau made zero fuss about his son’s pink princess dress pic.twitter.com/LQ9Ba9no3b

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) November 1, 2017

 

Spot on! @adamjohnsonNYC @FAIR: Stop Using Chador Walks by Anti-US Mural #StockPhotography for Every #Iran Article https://t.co/CSEyzYZAhi pic.twitter.com/0FacFsFGqO

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) October 30, 2017

 

It’s a stunning photo by Eric Thayer. It’s the tension of stray dirt on the path and the exposed roots even more than the agent locked-and-loaded. (T.S. Eliot would have had a field day.) And more brilliantly, it’s the Colonnade, the heartbeat of the @WhiteHouse, conceived as a bunker. (-Michael Shaw) #Repost @ericthayer ・・・ Secret Service, the White House. Washington DC #nytassignment @nytimes @whitehouse #halloween #haunting #westwing #nature #politics #photojournalism #dc #presscorps #nature #poetic #secretservice #colonnade #architecture

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Did somebody lose this? (-Michael Shaw) ⠀ Reposting @hollybdc:⠀ …⠀ #earth #ball #climatechange #steps #leaves #ground #play

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Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Caption: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort gets into his car after leaving federal court, October 30, 2017 in Washington, DC. Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in the investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election.