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Trump, King and What's in an Overcoat?
Too often, it's that simple thing right in front of your eyes that gets completely overlooked, even if it has plenty to say.
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Zombie Trumps at the Border: Risk Goes Both Ways
Analyzing the power in Verónica Cárdenas’s photos of immigrants wearing Trump masks.
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Ivanka and the Settling Mess: Our Social Media Roundup
What with the 100 day milestone and his manic push to put anything on his resume, this was another week of wall-to-wall Trump. Still, I wonder if the tone is shifting.
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So, Who WAS Kellyanne Taking That Couch Gate Photo For??
Even as Trump's first 100 days have been analyzed into oblivion, this Couch Gate question is still floating around out there.
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On That Stunning Tefillin Photo and the Marks that Remain
The verses inside the tefillin represent an eternal relationship that has already spanned thousands of years. Skin operates on a much shorter, mortal calendar.
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Visual Politics and the March for Science: What Caught our Eye
As much as science is taken for granted, the point of the march is that science is essential, that it is literally everything.
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Girls in Mosul, O’Reilly, Transparency: Our Social Media Roundup
What with all the paranoia and sense of doom in the air, we were attracted to several photos this week that challenge the negativity--or the lens itself and the lack of transparency.
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North Korean Border Photos That Challenge Today's War Hysteria
What these lighter North Korea photos get at is how much the president, gung-ho politicians and TV talking heads would have us cowering.
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What's in an Easter Egg Roll? The Trumps Unguarded
The rarest opportunity to see Trump and his family in a personal situation, photographers haven't had this kind of prolonged access to him since the inauguration.
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Seeing War For What It Is: Ridiculous
War is not fashion and suffering is not funny. But the photo of this missile is both familiar and odd enough to seem uncanny.
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United: When the Corporate Abuse is Visible
It is not like corporations don't pummel citizens everyday. The difference is that there are no pictures.
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Between the Trump and Obama Situation Room Photos
As easily as one sees a parallel between the Obama and Trump situation room photos, the comparison -- like most things Trump under closer inspection -- starts to unravel.
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April Means War: Our Social Media Roundup
April is the cruelest month? Capitol Hill meets Blue Velvet? Even before the U.S. missile strike on Thursday night, the photos of the week had an unsettling edge.
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Watch: Key Pictures from Trump's First 100 Days: The Reading the Pictures Salon
In this latest edition of the Reading the Pictures Salon, a distinguished panel reads key pictures from the first 100 days of the Trump Presidency.
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Photography's Limits in the Age of Trump's EPA
On the capacities of photography to confront environmental crises. Especially now.
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On Melania Trump's Official White House Portrait
Melania Trump, and a White House visual convention.
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On Those Re-released FBI 9/11 Photographs
It's a cold practice "dropping" this still-wrenching material this way. These images, like so many others rushed through the news stream, deserve more.
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Trump, the Mosul Atrocity, and a GIF That Says it All
How do we come to terms with the Mosul bombing, and a suddenly poisonous and reviled United States of America?
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Protest in Russia, Protest in America
The question is about how familiar Americans are with Russia. And it's about the burden placed on news photos.
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TrumpCare Road Rage: Our Weekly Social Media Roundup
Looking back at the GOP's health care collapse, the president's trucker photo op defined the week.
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