With Cheney, You Always Could Tell the Book From the Cover
It’s like the media is discovering anew the man lives in a parallel universe when the cover of his 2011 biography said it all.
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About the Photo (I Mean, Photos) of the Undercover Cop Pulling His Gun on Oakland Protesters
Does the photo of the undercover cop pointing his gun at a photographer come with more social and editorial baggage than most can handle?
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The Glass Ceiling and Gwyneth Paltrow's Legs
Of the 25 people named in the photo, only five are women and only one is a prime mover in an industrial company.
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The Senate CIA Torture Report and Our Favorite Rice Photo of All Time
Given the explosive nature of the torture program and the need for deniability, the ability to lull both the public and the media represented the highest form of art.
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Punching Out a Monet
With such disparity in our otherwise elegant world, the puncture seems fitting of the times.
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Almost as Striking as LeBron’s “I Can’t Breathe” T-Shirt in Brooklyn Last Night? The “Ferguson Jump Rope."
By pure coincidence, the piece of gear seemed to frame LeBron’s protest as a Ferguson echo too.
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Garner Aftermath: The Most Poignant "Die-Ins"
There have been so many "die ins" across the country, the newswires have been full of them. These three particularly stood out to me.
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Wedding Photojournalism: Some of My Best Friends are Masai
If the bride knows the Masai and they are friends, is she still "using" the Masai as accessories? Umm, yes.
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Mindful of Rice, Garner and Brown: Gordon Parks's Two Black Boys and One White Boy
I wish I could tell you how I would have read the picture before. Instead, I made acquaintance with it while immersed in the photos from Ferguson.
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Todd Heisler's Two Scenes from the Eric Garner Non-Indictment
The beauty of the first photo is how it juxtaposes Radio City as a real life Christmas card with the street. It's the season of joy versus another day of open wounds.
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Open and Shut: On that NYT NYPD Body Cam Pic
If the gestures allude to the use of the camera as "open and shut," that's a double-fantasy.
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Thoughts on the Rams "Don't Shoot" Gesture As They Obliterated the Raiders
As a single statement and a preamble to the contest is one thing, but bathed in light and replayed as the capstone to various winning moments is asking that much more.
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Quick Takes: On the "Black Kid/White Cop" Ferguson Protest Hug
Status quo eye candy.
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Black Friday: Ferguson Goes to the Mall
After the post 9/11 admonition to "go shopping," how striking to see the National Guard called in to defend big retail.
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On The Thanksgiving Wire
With the view every-which-way so dark and conflicted, this provided some relief.
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Under Siege, Those Dancing Blacks and Acrobatic Palestinians
If I believed the world had that much more sensitivity, I would think these photos would be recognized and celebrated as empathetic to the largely black residents of Ferguson or to Palestinians and Israeli Arabs.
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Mike Brown as Super Human: Wilson’s Testimony in the Echo of Lichtenstein’s Death Pile Photo
Human intuition being that much a marvel, Andrew's photo came back to me in a way that almost struck me dumb.
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Last Night's "No Indictment" Visual Rage: Ferguson's, Twitter's, Ours & Everybody Else's
This prime time, night time, #Ferguson cable countdown a disgrace and an insult to all Americans
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