What with all the paranoia and sense of doom in the air, we were attracted to several photos this week that challenge the negativity--or the lens itself and the lack of transparency.
Continue ReadingWhat these lighter North Korea photos get at is how much the president, gung-ho politicians and TV talking heads would have us cowering.
Continue ReadingThe rarest opportunity to see Trump and his family in a personal situation, photographers haven't had this kind of prolonged access to him since the inauguration.
Continue ReadingWar is not fashion and suffering is not funny. But the photo of this missile is both familiar and odd enough to seem uncanny.
Continue ReadingIt is not like corporations don't pummel citizens everyday. The difference is that there are no pictures.
Continue ReadingAs easily as one sees a parallel between the Obama and Trump situation room photos, the comparison -- like most things Trump under closer inspection -- starts to unravel.
Continue ReadingApril is the cruelest month? Capitol Hill meets Blue Velvet? Even before the U.S. missile strike on Thursday night, the photos of the week had an unsettling edge.
Continue ReadingOn the capacities of photography to confront environmental crises. Especially now.
Continue ReadingMelania Trump, and a White House visual convention.
Continue ReadingIt's a cold practice "dropping" this still-wrenching material this way. These images, like so many others rushed through the news stream, deserve more.
Continue ReadingHow do we come to terms with the Mosul bombing, and a suddenly poisonous and reviled United States of America?
Continue ReadingThe question is about how familiar Americans are with Russia. And it's about the burden placed on news photos.
Continue ReadingLooking back at the GOP's health care collapse, the president's trucker photo op defined the week.
Continue ReadingSimply put, you don't want to be photo bombed, or any other kind of bombed by North Korea.
Continue ReadingMigrants and bureaucracy co-exist in these photographs. They become a carnival mirror for border enforcement.
Continue ReadingIt's so much easier for the media to do its pandering, or throw a bone, in the style section.
Continue ReadingTwo months into the Trump era, edges are harder and surfaces are rougher. If green reflected the Obama period, paint today red.
Continue ReadingIf anything, the photo album brings Trump's guardedness, and the quality and amount of White House visual disclosure, into greater relief.
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