The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024
An expert panel examined key images in the contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump emphasizing themes of democracy, gender, and race.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Feast of the Arms Industry
We analyze Nikita Teryoshin’s photos lampooning arms expos while applauding the rare window into the massive weapons marketplace.
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Chatting the Pictures: Bringing Later Stage Abortions into the Light
The images of a later-stage abortion not only bring the procedure into sharper focus but also challenge the restrictive narratives imposed by new laws.
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Chatting the Pictures: Trump on Trial
We examine how Trump, despite his astonishing legal woes, turns his court appearances into photo-ops and how the images play in his parallel universe.
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Chatting the Pictures: The NFL’s Cold, Hard Collision With Climate Denial
Call it the elephant in the stadium. Inspired by the Super Bowl, we riff on a shattering hit with zero impact.
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Chatting the Pictures: Personal Meets Political in Undersea Climate Change Portraits
We survey the powerful blending of portraiture and landscape and the brilliant tension between domesticity and disaster in this photo project.
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Chatting the Pictures: Mourning Embrace in a Gaza Hospital
We discuss the photo's anonymity and intimacy, as well as other images of the woman and child to personalize the interconnection of grief and loss.
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Chatting the Pictures: On a Gaza Playground, Seized by the Peril of Fighter Jets
The photo, timeless as it is specific, embodies the instinctual reactions, sustained fear, and psychic harm to children lacking true refuge.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Israeli Hostage Poster
Analyzing the posters of abducted Israelis, we examine their format, 9/11 parallels, wide circulation, and how they inform Israeli unity.
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Chatting the Pictures: Libya’s Climate-Fueled Flood at Epic Scale
With an expert perspective, this photo vividly conveys the immense scale of the climate-supercharged flooding in Libya.
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Chatting the Pictures: A Portrait that Dares to Expose Musk’s Madness
We do a deep dive into a daring photo that reflects Elon Musk as a supervillain and potentially mentally disturbed.
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Chatting the Pictures: Coexisting with a Steadily Rising Sea
In the video, we contrast the vibrant elements of this Javanese portrait with the irony and cultural loss from the advance of climate change.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Climate’s Dark Harvest
As striking as it is ominous, this disorienting photo is a powerful indictment of the social and environmental impact of extreme heat.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Fate of Twitter in a Single Shot
In the video, we into the symbolism of the dismembered logo, the visual dynamics of the replacement “X,” and the live bird and the “BlueSky.“
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Chatting the Pictures: Israel’s “Democracy SOS”
We note the scale and urgency of the "judicial coup" protests in Israel and their failure to garner international attention.
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Chatting the Pictures: NYC’s Children of the Smoke
The sight of smoke descending on NYC was otherworldly. The emotional fallout from the Canadian wildfires, especially on children, was also.
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Chatting the Pictures: Rough Times for Trump and His Body Man
In addition to the power imbalance evident in the photo, we explore the racial and cultural dynamics in the Trump-Nauta relationship.
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Chatting the Pictures: The War Against Drag. And Why Drag is Winning
Energized by right-wing moral panic, this image reflects the growing popularity of drag as both social education and family entertainment.
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