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Photo August 13, 2015

Why We’re Changing Our Name

Our choice wasn’t difficult, considering we’ve actually been using this phrase as a tagline since, well... that Bush-Kerry election.

Campaign '16 Photo

Campaign 2016: The Rapture

If we can be less dogmatic for a second about our own jadedness, what is divine is that hope is still out there.

Media Focus Photo August 11, 2015

When Different Wire Photos on Same Story Address Different Racial Audiences: “Go Set a Watchman”

Who, between these photos, is invited to see themselves as Watchman’s audience?

International Focus Photo August 10, 2015

The 1% Two Ways

If the term “two Americas” (or two Londons, or, in this case, two Shanghais) is largely understood as a metaphor, what are we to make of it here?

Ferguson MO Photo

On the Photo Coverage of the One Year Anniversary of the Ferguson Crisis and the Death of Michael Brown

I was looking and hoping for imagery that got underneath the more stereotyped depiction of violence, anger and despair.

Campaign '16 Photo August 7, 2015

The First GOP16 Cattle Call: Our 3 Pix of the Night

In this troglodyte moment, you can see the boys behind Ms. Kelly back there tittering.

International Focus Photo August 5, 2015

From His Own Perspective: The Seductive Power of the Instagram Migrant

Of course, we would hope that the migrant diaspora in our media diet would reflect the greatest realism, but that’s a whole different thing than the migrant telling his or her own story, taking his or her own pictures, and controlling his or her own narrative.

Business Focus Photo

On the Empire State Building Endangered Species Spectacular: I Want to Believe

I want to believe that what I’m experiencing here is demonstrably more than just do-good shock-and-awe.

Media Focus Photo August 4, 2015

Killer Cop Arraigned in Cincinnati (Confused by How Much Social Media Thrives on Shame)

One thing the shaming obscures is the extreme moral contrast between Tensing and the cops.

Philip Perdue Photo August 2, 2015

On Light, God, Photography … and That Moment Just Before the Bad Thing Happens

The point isn't that photography is God, or that God is a photograph. But we are in fact dealing with a mode of communication that freezes time and space, obeys its own laws, is both visual and grammatical, and does more to generate meaning—and generates more meaning—than we can...

Media & Culture Photo July 31, 2015

Beyond Matt Black’s Poverty Percentages

If you simply relate to Black’s poverty or class imagery in the broad brush, it’s a prolific view. But, in most every frame, the deeper power and reward is that further question or allegation.

Culture Focus Photo July 29, 2015

Selfie Finger-Wagging on Mars? or, Something Lighter and Earthlier Than That?

So, can I tell you what the photo made me think about … apart from any issue about photography?

Culture Focus Photo

Classic Misdirection: The State’s Sanctimonious Sandra Bland Jail Video Play-by-Play

If what we're presumed to have now is full visual disclosure, I'd say the state has an even bigger credibility problem on its hands than it had before.

Gender & Identity Photo July 27, 2015

35 Cosby Accusers Featured at NY Mag: How the Photography Stands Up to Rape Culture

Given the impact of 35 women telling how Bill Cosby intimidated, drugged, sexually assaulted, and/or raped them, Karrin Anderson explains how New York Magazine’s cover and accompanying portraits use the photo narrative to stand up to rape culture.

9/11 Photo July 26, 2015

How to Understand the Newly Released 9/11 Photo of Dick Cheney with his “Foot Up”

Anyone reading a smug indifference, even if that's characteristic of Cheney most of the time, would understand at some level that it’s misattributed here.