New Year Buttons: Our Visual Roundup of the Week

The pic of the week. But not because it had buttons in it, including a red one. Because-leading off the year, especially-it was so strikingly Trump-free. #boundaries #nkorea #skorea pic.twitter.com/TH0X93dOz2

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 7, 2018

Most people were happy to escape 2017 with all its drama and vitriol. No surprise though, in the era of Trump, the short week after New Years was thoroughly charged. The visual media sphere was filled with another intense weather anomaly, the bitter Bomb Cyclone. The even bigger bomb came from Michael Wolff’s book further exposing the president’s ineptitude after he spent months hanging out at the White House as a fly on the wall. More tension between Trump and North Korea dominated the international scene, along with unrest in Iran. Welcome to 2018.

The Trump White House reveals itself in the margins, when they’re not “going live.” Check out @PressSec‘s expression entering the briefing room before the Bannon response. The trepidation makes perfect sense. The place has become a mine field. 📷 @Al_Drago @bloomberg via @Getty pic.twitter.com/f0f6llRoeH

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 4, 2018

Best part of the “Burger King” illo in the @MichaelWolffNYC article? Beyond the rage, the Kelly-free paroxysm, the wardrobe fethishized by @maggieNYT, and the other blonde (“the station I never watch”), it’s the famed “me” circle and monitors like mirrors. Illo: Jeffrey Smith pic.twitter.com/ekkqxs7OWA

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 3, 2018

More US #homeless suffering #bombcyclone, the pictures largely published in foreign media. First @IrishTimesWorld. Second @elnuevodiario (Nicaragua). #googlesearch. Photos from #Boston by @spencerplatt1 @GettyImages pic.twitter.com/WobL55l06V

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 8, 2018

Saw this on @somogettynews’s Instagram, captioned: “Toy Air Force One in your path.” Beyond cute, we’d dare to call it predicative. In one click of the calendar, Trump’s shtick feeling very old. pic.twitter.com/OTlN7OvLV3

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 2, 2018

How to photograph a stealth bomber over a stadium… from above: https://t.co/aRA6tbI7PA pic.twitter.com/vOeGaYMKlE

— PetaPixel (@petapixel) January 4, 2018

Priorities. https://t.co/Jl9QZYsHfU

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 5, 2018

Here’s the latest round-up on #IranProtest

Gov warns protesters will pay price,while officials confirm 2 have been killed in western town of Dorud.

by @EricWRandolph and @ali_noorani_tehhttps://t.co/egqvpobADR pic.twitter.com/j7LWu0aD4A

— AFP Tehran (@afptehran) December 31, 2017

In Iran, as elsewhere, #women and #youth have had enough. Write it down, the theme of 2018. https://t.co/0SGrpGafEj

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

Next, watch out for the XXL tie. @nytimes: “Kim Jong-un Goes Dapper, Updating His Style Along With His Arsenal.” https://t.co/p8gHq8IcyI pic.twitter.com/DfWi3QyLWx

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 2, 2018

After all the coverage the year before, what made one more deadly #Mediterranean #migrant crossing stand out? That the sea might have been painted by an Impressionist? 📷@EmilioMorenatti @AP_Images @washingtonpost pix of the year @Pro_Activa_SL @openarms_found #Libyans pic.twitter.com/BpJibHzBDA

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

I’m not seeing a lot of DC political pix on Instagram today (though the internet, in the wake of the Wolff book, is a four alarm fire). I’m seeing a lot of fine work on the snoclone instead, though. This, from Matt McClain, is strikingly still. Weather is one of the few things that can still impose humility practically across the board. (-Michael Shaw)⠀ ⠀ Repost @mattmcclainphoto:⠀ …⠀ “A pedestrian is seen through a window covered in condensation as a storm hit the area on Thursday January 04, 2018 in Alexandria, VA. (Photo by @mattmcclainphoto / @washingtonpost) #winter #coldweather #alexandriava #bombcyclone” #mood #weather #slow

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Photo: South Korean Unification Ministry/Yohap via AP  Caption: A South Korean government official communicates with a North Korean officer during a phone call on the dedicated communications hotline at the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Jan. 3, 2018.