Eiffel Tower Peace Sign: Branding or Love Call (if for Impending Security State)?
The effort to stop a ruthless tyranny can lead to a state where the Paris of today is only a memory.
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We Can Now Safely Say it’s the Weirdest Presidential Campaign Ever
Politicians aren’t born, they’re collaged. Thoughts on Jeff Jacobson's odd Rubio photo from New Hampshire.
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War/No War. Reading Spencer Platt’s NY Veterans Day Parade Photos
These photos surface uncomfortable realities about an America (still) at war.
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Telltale Screenshots from U. of Missouri
I offer these screen shots for the way they speak to the complicated mess surrounding visual access and photo coverage of news events today.
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Ben Carson on the Bubble: Scott Olson’s “Red Light” Photo from Iowa
If Carson continues to insist that he’s beyond reproach, you can already sense how many faces in the audience he’s going to alienate.
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Weaponized Entitlement: Book Cover Frames a Gun-Toting Clinton as Deviant, Dangerous
Clinton’s frontrunner status should be a major advantage, but a gendered narrative suggests she is bullying her way to the nomination.
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The Art of the Newswire Photo
Newswire photos represent one of the most unheeded art forms ever. At the same time, the expressive nature of these images has never been higher.
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Posing the Dead with their Vices: Media Fascination a Matter of Race?
These photographs quickly turn from mementos into scenes in which national audiences view the short, sordid lives of others.
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Photographing the Refugee Crisis: The Significance of Less Context
Let me suggest that the more interchangeable the images, they more they point toward the full significance of this historical moment.
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The Season’s Most Cynical Political Costume Photo
Of course, it's not outside the realm of possibility the family of this kid understood how xenophobic Trump is.
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Skid Row Halloween
Where are the critical details as the kids are seen to be either parading, or trick-or-treating past rows of people living in tents or boxes?
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In Spite of Cancer Link, Meat Never Looked So Good
We aren’t invited to question how the American food industry prepares meat. According to the imagery, it's the public's willpower that is on the hook.
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Ashley Gilbertson’s “New Europeans”: A More Subtle Migrant Exodus
This photo of migrant children on the Macedonia/Greece border uniquely captures the more daily highs and lows of this historic period.
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Seeing the Same Migrant Tide At Wonderfully Different Scales
What’s unique about these four photos is how they capture the same historic passage through Europe at completely different orientations.
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Country and Class and How We Look at the Migrant Crisis
There is always a risk of seeing refugees or people in flight as poor and needy, especially if the photos focus on their dehumanization.
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Reading the Hillary Clinton House Benghazi Testimony Photos
While the media is swimming in a river of Hillary faces from the House Benghazi hearing, I had some thoughts on some slightly less trafficked photos.
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