Seasons Greetings
I really like this one, specifically at this holiday and gift-giving season.
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Star Wars Optics and Socialist Dreams
Incredible, isn’t it? So perfectly designed and yet so strange. Ultramodern and yet medieval, like a space ship on a surveillance mission and a castle readied for battle, set off by itself in forbidding isolation and yet connected somehow to distant galaxies. The tableau is so unique and so...
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Most Prominent Photo Objects of 2015: The Life Jacket
Who knows how many powerful images were published this year of life jackets either worn or discarded by migrants.
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On that Perfectly Real Photo of “Trump and the Muslim Girl”
These photos undermine Trump’s logic at the same time that they elevate domestic (Muslim) American life. In other words, Trump gets trolled.
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The GOP Debate with the Sound Off
So a year in to the GOP race, what can we glean from last night's Las Vegas show?
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A “Fist Pumping” Election Victory for Saudi Women?
This Saudi election photo makes you realize how much the west sees thing through its own eyes.
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Police Ride-Along Photography and Natalie Keyssar’s New Turn
As concern has escalated in America over police violence and race relations, attention has risen, too, over how photojournalism depicts the issue. Read on.
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The Market Fiddles While Beijing Lungs Burn
The fact this photo appears during the crucial Paris climate summit raises its relevance, and the anxiety, to a whole different level.
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Trump and “The Scream.” The (Visual) Backlash Begins?
Mockery only plays Trump's game. Considering some of Landon Nordeman's images for TIME, there's plenty to see around the scream.
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Trump as Führer. It Doesn’t Happen on its Own.
Yes, stylistic echoes of the Führer are inescapable. But it's more complicated than that.
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“Game Changing” Pirelli Calendar Still Exists to Sell Tires to Men
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, the Pirelli calendar still leads with nakedness, privileges whiteness, and assumes that men are always, inevitably the primary viewers.
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Gun Control Battle: A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Rounds
Outrage is no longer enough. To win the battle over guns, more aggressive and creative images are needed.
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The Climate Crisis (& Why You’ve Gotta Love Those Businessweek Covers)
If PC is out the window, in this case, it's perfectly called for.
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Status Update: Silicon Valley in the Mirror
If the “Status Update” show was only partly about Silicon Valley and the tension between tech and the rest of the Bay Area, that’s how we read it.
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Paris Earth Summit: Visual Activism Rises to the Climate
With the Paris climate summit following on the heels of a vicious terror attack, the atmosphere for visual activism could not be more elevated.
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Trump & Dumbo — Rejoicing in the Anti-Intellectual
Being politically incorrect and boasting about it is understood in Trump's world as integrity. That’s why the parallel to Dumbo is not an accident.
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On the Planned Parenthood Shooter Mugshot and Today’s News Portrait
If only the tendency to treat every face like a story led to real evidence.
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The Latest Terror Attack and a 19th Century Painting
I doubt that the photographer was thinking of Caillebotte’s work when snapping the photo in Brussels, but the connection is there in several ways.
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