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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That Photo of the Officer at the Laquan McDonald Protest Last Night
Ultimately, what’s significant about the photo is its S&M vibe.
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From Russia With Love: Pounding Syria in the Name of Paris
Given how the Russians are using the fight against ISIS to distract from its support for Assad, the phrase on the bomb can be ambiguous.
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Trump’s Praise for Protester Pummeling: Even FOX Hosts Stung
There could be a whole collection, in the Library of Congress perhaps, capturing true emotional reactions before the audience slipped back into passive assent or just on-camera cool.
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Tell Us What You Really Think About Carson
To the extent people see Carson punching above his weight class, what are viewers likely to make of this?
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Less Than a Day Later, a Paris All-Too-Normal. (Photo: Alex Majoli)
If it’s primarily about Parisians reclaiming their cafe life and affirming their resilience, I wonder if the photo isn’t more provocative than that.
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On Charlie Hebdo’s (Latest) Paris Attack Response
If it’s about the latest attack on Paris, it seems to say as much, or more, about the last one.
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Who’s French Now? The Most Political, and Poignant Aftermath Photos from the Paris Attack.
If the attack changed the way France sees its Muslims, its foreign born and even non-whites, how did that inform the immediate imagery?
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From Guerrilla to Boy Band: The Paris Ringleader and ISIS Photo Tactics
The discrepant photos of Abdelhamid not only demonstrate their marketing prowess, but how easily ISIS can tweak the west.
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