The Trump “Obama Muslim” Moment the Media Totally Missed
In implicating Trump as a bigot and, by association, the audience as sheep, the photo media missed the most curious moment of this dispiriting campaign.
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Hippie Bashing: New Photos at TIME Keep New Age on the Fringe
Perhaps a threat to consumer culture, these new photos at TIME ridicule yoga, mediation and spiritual practices, framing them as still somehow “far out."
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Our Favorite Obama – Putin UN “War of the Rosés” Picture
While most media highlighted more manly-man U.S.-Russia stand-off pics from the Secretary-General’s UN luncheon, we’re voting for this as our #1.
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The Pope’s US Trip as it Touched on Race
Although the Pope typically addresses injustice in the context of class, his concern over racial strife was implicit in those key quotations from MLK.
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The Pope’s Congressional Override
What was straight out of a parallel universe was the way our senior legislators, the polarized of the polarized, reacted to the Pope's confrontation in a completely apolitical way.
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Pope in America: It’s Showtime!
Poverty? Racial tolerance? Social Justice? For the media over the next few days, it’s Hollywood, baby.
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The GOP’s Reagan Library Debate With the Sound Off
Our read on the visual highlights of the presidential debate, including the Donald - Jeb, Donald - Carly and just The Donald show.
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Migrant Optics: Targeting Hungary (and Conjuring the Dark Evil of WWII)
Has Hungary become the visual fall guy for a crisis with no good humanitarian answer?
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Geekfest, and the Blurry Lines Between Commercial, Documentary and News Photography
I have to say that, up until the past year or so, I wasn’t seeing a whole lot of news photos that were this lush.
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Past the Reminders: The Life-Threatening NFL
We’re way past the point where an image like this simply serves as a reminder of the problem.
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On 9/11: A New Ground Zero Photo. Five Kids on Bikes.
This remarkable photo, taken 9/12/01, is even more interesting appearing in a year wracked by racial protest and the emergence of #blacklivesmatter.
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Great Migration Photo from Hungary: Taking Flight
Seriously, this might be the most surreal photo of the great migration.
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Simply Transcendent: Bar Palestine Balances Despair and Dignity in Gaza
The achievement here is how the group can take this mindlessly oppressive rubble world and reduce it to pure geometry.
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Migrant Optics: Taking it to Hungary
For its story value, the photo might as well be a movie treatment — the migrant cast as its dramatic hero.
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Climb Every Mountain, Ford Every Stream: Beyond the Humanitarian Response to the Great Migration
If humanitarian fervor and photos of the migrant crisis dominated last week like nothing else, this largely invisible image served cleverly, if silently, as a counterpoint.
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The Crisis of Leadership
Perhaps what the crisis images ultimately highlight are the abject limits of our governing systems, our leaders and our humanity.
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On Obama in Alaska and the (Visitor) Showers at Auschwitz
My takeaway from the White House photographs of Obama’s trip to Alaska, and the photos of the outdoor misting stations at Auschwitz, is pretty similar
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Why We Saw the Photo of the Israeli Solder Giving the Palestinian Boy a Headlock … Not Fighting a Girl
It’s not just man vs. child, especially female child, that exposes the state. It’s also the sense the otherwise omnipotent soldier might actually be over his head.
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