Philip Jones Griffiths
It's both strange and curious that the photographer, Philip Jones Griffiths, would die on the five-year anniversary of the Iraq War.
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More Exiles
It was gratifying to hear Obama and Clinton mention the plight of Iraqi exiles in their LA debate. Otherwise, one hardly hears about the four million. About three weeks ago, I introduced you to a project -- by BNN contributer Lori Grinker -- to profile and follow the stories...
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Outside Heath Ledger's Apartment
These are pictures I snapped outside Heath Ledger's apartment on the night of his death. By the time I got there, the media hubbub had died down a bit, but I think these still represent the bizarre scene that ensued.
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Painted Construction Markings
I offer you this as a reminder of how subjective it is to analyze social and political imagery.
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Campaign Visuals In the Age of Facebook
Specifically, though, its an analysis of an image he shot on the campaign trail in New Hampshire, and a look at how campaign coverage can be seen to reflect a "Facebook aesthetic." Ferry is more well known for his work in and about Columbia. The part of his bio...
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A Swipe At Community Organizing
In the furor ignited by BET President Robert Johnson, what is overlooked is the intimation that "community organizing" is somehow an inferior activity. In response, The BAG offers you an excerpt from a photo-narrative by Chicago-based photojournalist Jon Lowenstein, entitled "The South Side."
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The Forgotten Iraqi Exiles
Rather than photographing hundreds of Iraqi refugees to illustrate the epic size of the exodus, I want to follow, for an extended period and in an intimate way, just a few - I want to take the journey with them, to live the aftermath of war with them, and...
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Iraq Still There
Sign of the times, here's another shot from Michael Kamber, taken in Ramadi on December 8th. He writes: "Found hanging on the wall of the marine base here--an old bare cold dirty building wtih no furniture, just bare brick walls." War Is Over--Say the Pundits (FAIR) In a Force...
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Aja, Aja, Aja, Aja, OBollywood
What you have to like about the OBollywood video is the possibility that America -- after years of xenophobia -- might possibly find a way to embrace diversity, pluralism and multiculturalism.
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First Hillbilly Armor, Now Osprey
At a unit cost of $100 million, and after $15+ billion and 25 years of development, this contraption has just recently been introduced in Iraq.
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The Comfort, The Comfort
Lori Grinker spent 23 day aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort in 2003, a month after the war started. What I find particularly powerful about her work is how the image is often a window to a larger story, or else the encapsulation of a conflictual or ironic truth.... ...
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Iraq: The Space Between. (First Pass)
It describes the gap between different peoples and cultures in Iraq. It attempts to show the space between two wars, the American invasion and the Iraqi civil war, the space between us and them, my experience and your experience.... —Christoph Bangert During the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003...
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"Canyon of Heroes"
There are a number of things I find stunningly memorable about Lori Grinker's photo, taken on lower Broadway in the so-called "Canyon of Heroes" on June 10, 1991.
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All You Need Is Heroin: U.S. Troops In Their Own Hand
Photographer Peter van Agtmael has made two trips to Iraq and one to Afghanistan over the past couple years. Among his work over that time is a series, the idea of which is eminently logical, but which I haven't seen before. To capture a more raw if performative picture...
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Not Just Our Wounded
The image above is from Iraq's Brutally Wounded, based on the images of photographer Farah Nosh. It is the latest in a series of photo essays at Alternet produced by Nina Berman and co-sponsored by BAGnewsNotes. Nothing makes these images more accessible than their familial impact.
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The Amnestic States Of America
Certainly, watch the Chris Morris slide show at Alternet that Nina Berman produced (and The BAG helped sponsor), and look at Morris' photo gallery at the Hasted Hunt gallery.
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Steps Without A Casket
The casket that is not there reminds me of the way this war's symbols and rituals of death have been relegated, in large part, to the imagination.
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Since November (#5): The Look Of Lethality
What does a bad soldier look like? And, what are the limits of reading into a photo?
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