A Preliminary Thought As We Enter Photojournalism Award Season
I appreciate that a news photo deserves to be judged and valued as a professional artifact. It's not nearly so straight forward, however.
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For Crying Out Loud: The Visual Politics of the Vaccination Photo
Now that vaccination has become the latest political football in America’s ideological and culture war, the injection photo really does carry some weight.
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Dr. Christie, He Presumes: GOP Optics and Weird Science
If you don't have the politics or the facts firmly enough behind you -- especially if the public doesn't take you that seriously -- doing a photo op against the no-nonsense background of the clinic or the lab is not a very good idea.
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What War, Terror, Racial Tension, Climate Change? The Anxiety Underneath This Year's Kinder, Gentler Super Bowl Ads
I'm wonder how much of the softer, lighter, funnier and friendlier focus of many of these ads was actually a reflex to buffer the consuming public from the social tension and political anxiety that has formed an almost steady drumbeat since last November.
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Last Week’s Scariest Newswire Photo (For 81% of Americans and 61% of Republicans, at Least)
What's ironic is the way the children skip forward leaving us to wonder at what rate over their lifetimes the environment will deteriorate.
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That Deflate-Gate Photo, Focused Appropriately
Yes, phallic associations abound in this story — and given the NFL’s travails, are fully deserving.
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Two Views of the GOP's Iowa Freedom Summit
If Peterson's shots are more consistently dark and cynical in tone, it's not to say that the Yahoo Gallery doesn't match, and in certain instances, exceed Mark's most equivalent photo for skepticism and even mockery.
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Pro Vs Amateur, and the Instagram Gallery On The New York Times Front Page
I don't see how this front page impacts the pro versus amateur argument in that big a way. Not as much, at least, as the blizzard of (free) publicity bestowed on Instagram and Facebook.
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Pics from the Wire: Teach Your Children Well?
As conflict in Ukraine or in Syria blurs, these are things we can see, feel and think about.
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Pics from the Wire: The Overarching Obstacle in Iraq
The photo sums up the problem with western engagement -- in duplicate.
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Six Photos to Consider on the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
This is not a post about remembrance as much as it is about the applicability, universality and the visual influence of the occasion.
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Syria-Tokyo-Cairo: The Information and the Drama As One
If scenes of terror and trauma used to be something you had to notice, today they're ubiquitous.
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The Dream of Reconciliation: Martin and Trayvon, Eric, Wenjian and Rafael
If power is unequal, hearts are hard and communication in the public square is all too partitioned and barbed, I deeply appreciate both these images.
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At the White House, a Sense of Humor (and the Old Shazam!)
This photo might suggest a few things about Obama 2015 now that he has run his last campaign and seems lighter in his step.
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Brands Exploiting MLK Day: Not Just the Most Horrible Offenders, But Why
Focusing on tweets that were visual or hinged on visual language, I've identified ones that co-opted MLK into the brand, and in some instances, were overtly racist.
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After Brooklyn Execution, Has Media Sympathy Shifted Pro-Police?
With the exoneration of Officer Morrison overlapping the backlash by the NYPD, we have a poster example of a serious problem with video and police accountability. It's called over-sharing.
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Death by Illustration
If you hadn't been following the news, this photo might seem terribly cheeky. (Then, how fitting would that be.)
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