Tweeting the Baby: In 2 Pix, the Clinton Script for 2016
The picture on Hillary's feed has a complete campaign vibe -- formal down to the pearls.
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"Hands Up, Don't Shoot," Hong Kong Edition
From the photos I've seen, the youth in Hong Kong are deploying the gesture in a less complicated way.
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Photoville: War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things
Wars may be easy to get into (and easy to suppose as tactically and emotionally limited) but then the stains just keep spreading.
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Photoville 2014: Matt Black and California's Dust Bowl
Although the disjunction is not usually this surreal, in this image from 2001, Matt seems to almost pay homage to Hitchcock.
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Weaponizing the Burka
In this case, the extreme aggression is completely flipped through the language — repurposing a highly specific portrait as an act of character assassination.
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Mother Earth Isn't White … and Other Climate Change Protest Pics That Caught Our Eye
...Or, enough sightseeing, time to do something.
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Photoville 14: In Gezi Park, and in Space
These photos were taken in Gezi Park in Istanbul in 2013. I wanted you to see them for the way the exhibit translates them into space.
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From the Islamic State News Desk, Hostage-Anchor John Cantlie Reporting
This op-ed is as impressive for dialing back on the previous execution videos as for taking over a classically Western media format.
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"In Focus": Media Using Pentagon Pics As News Photos (Again)
The inference here is that a photo taken by a photojournalist for a news organization and one taken by a soldier to ennoble the military really has no difference.
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The Kent State Massacre Sweatshirt: How Far Did Urban Outfitters Really Go?
We can all wag our fingers at Urban Outfitters while others feed the diet in slightly more ambiguous ways. We can all wag our fingers, but the sphere wouldn’t be the sphere without its pirates and villains.
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Sports Advertising: Meet You at Your Cubical
I've always been keen on that rare bit of news or documentary imagery that happened to be shot in the office.
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More Fashion Week: I'm My Own Grandpa
Beneath the quips, there's something really clever going on here.
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9/11: Remarkably, A Photo of the Towers From Thirteen Years Away
I wouldn't have imagined seeing a photo yesterday -- initially, a Twitter blip amidst the moments of silence, the first responders, the enormous flags in the football stadiums, the burning embers, the falling men -- that would actually cause me to look on that day anew.
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Fashion Week from an Untrained Eye: Shots of Models Eating
The most engaging view of culture and politics right now might be on or around the runway
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What's Up With Those Middle East Edition Businessweek Covers?
I don't know, looking at these covers they seem unusually inflamed.
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How the Pictures are Killing Us: The Dynamics of the Sotloff and Foley ISIS Videos
If the Foley and Sotloff videos felt like a piercing blow, if just from the bloodless screen shots, what is it that so pierced us?
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America from the Outside: Nixon's Prop Wash by Jean-Pierre Laffont … and Annie Leibovitz
What caught my eye was this version of Nixon's final departure from the White House. Of course, it couldn't be more different then that iconic scene hardwired into the America consciousness.
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Compassionate Conservatism: Damon Winter’s New Photos from Gitmo for The NY Times
The new wrinkle is on how the prisoners are allowed more contact with each other as long as they demonstrate good behavior.
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