Grand Rapids Auto: An Introduction
Christina Clusiau is a New York based photographer who has been returning to her hometown in Northern Minnesota to photograph and interview members and employees of her family’s auto dealership, in light of the economic crisis which has forced the car companies to ask for bailouts from the federal...
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Gitmo Details #1: Club Survivor
In conjunction with Daylight Magazine , BNN takes a look at a series of images by photographer Christopher Sims taken at Guantanamo Bay.
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World Press Photo Awards/Your Turn: Now War Is Coming Into People’s Houses Because They Can’t Pay Their Mortgages
The winner of World Press Photo, the most visible and prestigious photojournalism award was announced today. The picture, by Anthony Suau, shows an armed officer of the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department moving through a home in Cleveland, Ohio, following eviction as a result of mortgage foreclosure.
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Gitmo: Down To Its Last Happy Meal
This image, taken in March 2002 by contributer Lori Grinker, has stood out in my mind since I first saw it. It was taken at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo.
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To Catch Sight Of The Freedom Train
This image captured today along the Obama Freedom train route by photographer Matt Lutton.
Continue ReadingGetting The BAG's Inauguration Coverage Started A Little Early
In kicking off our Inauguration coverage, we take a look back at these images from the Inauguration and Counter-Inauguration forty years ago.
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On New Years, I Think Of Fireworks
The soldiers had come up with a few fireworks and when they ran out they dug into their supply of flares and shot them out of the grenade launchers on their M-4 assault rifles. I set my camera up and caught this long exposure.
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Welcome Zoriah
As part of the continuing evolution of BNN, I am pleased to introduce you to our newest contributor, Zoriah Miller.
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"I Feel Strongly About This Particular Point Because Of A Picture I Saw In A Magazine"
This is the image that crystallized, in Colin Powell's mind, how the GOP has completely gone off the tracks in polarizing this country. Think what you will of Powell himself, his reference to this photograph as a statement of inclusion and as a rebuttal to the hate being spread...
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Art For Obama: Authenticity And Purity Of Race And Patriotism
Titled Art For Obama, fifty of the country's most prominent artists and photographers have donated their work for this auction. BNN offers you a look at two of the works up for bid.
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Olympic Notes: Beijing On Its Face
Beyond just a face-lift, Beijing has undergone radical surgery, especially poor neighborhoods which have been effectively or even literally walled off.
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Reader Poll (Vault) And The Chinese Drinking Contest
Okay team, do we do a 10%, 50% or 90% turn toward China, and the visual politics of the Olympics?
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War Is Personal
This photo was taken by Eugene Richards as part of a series he is developing with The Nation Institute. Sgt. José Pequeño suffered a devastating brain injury from a grenade that was thrown into his Humvee in Iraq.
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Your Turn: "Leia's Daddy"
As the original caption tells us, all Sgt. Ryan John Baum wanted to do was come home and put his daughter, Leia, on his chest. Born 11 days after his death in Iraq on May 18, 2007, the placement of the baby photo during visitation speaks to that wish.
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Arlington West
The Los Angeles chapter of Veterans for Peace is just one of at least twenty groups around the country that has adopted the Arlington West concept. Every Sunday since February 15th, 2004, the group has erected one cross for each soldier killed in Iraq near the Santa Monica pier.
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Primary Reflection From Harrisburg
I wanted to draw your attention to this very fine photograph by Larry Fink from a political photo gallery at VF. Fink shot this in Harrisburg while documenting last month's Clinton effort in the Pennsylvania primary. For myself, the photo speaks to the powerful bond between Hillary and the...
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Before The Heartbreak
I was completely struck by this image of RFK in VF's new article and slide show, The Heartbreak Campaign.
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