Topics - Reading The Pictures

Support Us

About Search

Today, Jul. 14th, 2025 Reading the Pictures is dedicated to the analysis of news photos and media images.

Topics

A curated collection of posts related to our most-popular subject matter.

Latest

What If They Gave A War And Nobody Came?

Immigration What If They Gave A War And Nobody Came?

How LA residents refused Trump's invitation to violence—and why the most essential protest images tell a different story.

Trump’s Visual Legacy at 100 Days: Not Normal Pictures for Not Normal Times

Politics Trump’s Visual Legacy at 100 Days: Not Normal Pictures for Not Normal Times

Signaling Strangelove: The New Yorker Cover’s Brilliant Take on SignalGate

Politics Signaling Strangelove: The New Yorker Cover’s Brilliant Take on SignalGate

Trump’s Mugshot as White House Power Play

Politics Trump’s Mugshot as White House Power Play

The State of Disunion

Politics The State of Disunion

Chatting The Pictures: Old Glory, Trump, and the L.A. Fire Disasters

Environment Chatting The Pictures: Old Glory, Trump, and the L.A. Fire Disasters

The Visual Politics of the LA Fires

Environment The Visual Politics of the LA Fires

Chatting the Pictures: A Telling Photo from Howard University on Election Night 2024

Politics Chatting the Pictures: A Telling Photo from Howard University on Election Night 2024

The 13 Most Telling Photographs of the Harris-Trump Presidential Debate

Campaign '24 The 13 Most Telling Photographs of the Harris-Trump Presidential Debate

Chatting the Pictures: A Single Image Tells the Story of the 2024 DNC

Kamala Harris Chatting the Pictures: A Single Image Tells the Story of the 2024 DNC

Besides RNC Fever Dream, a Perfect Photo of “the New Weirdness”

Politics Besides RNC Fever Dream, a Perfect Photo of “the New Weirdness”

Topics, explained by Michael Shaw.

How we determine relevent topics and content.

Reading the Pictures is dedicated to visual, political, and media analysis of editorial images, whether keyed to current headlines or specific cultural themes.

Our Topics are subjects we have covered the most over the years. Each one includes ten or so of our top-performing posts which we also feel are the most historically important.