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An Uncanny Way of Seeing Donald Trump's Woman Problem
From an Instagram photo, what an appearance by Melania Trump on the last Friday before the election calls to mind.
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So Much for Competence: Trump/Clinton as Popularity Contest
Whatever got us here, asking "Which One?" this year is radically misleading when only one of the candidates is competent.
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On the NY Magazine/Barbara Kruger Trump “Loser” Cover
When they go low, we go… lower?
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Bombshells and More: Our Twitter/Instagram Favs of the Week
With the presidential campaign in its final days, we would have had plenty of election pics to show you even if the FBI Director hadn't blown it up.
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Trump Rally Wear Update: Black Guns Matter
It takes a particularly provocative t-shirt these days to merit special attention. Like this one.
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Campaign '16 In Pictures: Watch the School of Visual Arts Lecture by RTP's Michael Shaw
On September 22, 2016, The School of Visual Arts presented "The Backlash Election: Campaign '16 In Pictures," a lecture by Reading the Pictures publisher, Michael Shaw. Watch it here.
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Haiti, Matthew and the Limits of Attention
What makes one critical event the intense focus of “name photojournalists” and visual media while others are largely ignored?
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Footnotes to History: Reading the Thankfully Final Clinton/Trump Debate
It’s no surprise political and media Twitter, in the half-hour or so before the debate, was so chock full of kittens and puppies.
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Not Your Father’s Black Panthers: On Election '16 and the Youngs
In this bleak campaign season, it’s wonderful to be reminded how much less of our old baggage young people are carrying around.
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On Trump, the Rally Mob and the Terrorizing of Journalists
Trump's blaming and bullying actually causes us to fear for the safety of the writers and photographers covering the last days of this pyrrhic campaign.
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A Few Photos for Anyone Asking: How Could Women Still Support Him?
What's hard to fathom is the gap between women who are sickened by Trump and those who can't seem to get enough of him.
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Hillary Nothing Without Donald: More Visual Debate Fallout
This debate photo of Hillary mouthless with a look of regard (when all Trump could do was berate her) cuts to the heart of women's negation.
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Clinton - Trump II: From Our Debate Tweet Storm
Here's what caught our eye during the second Clinton - Trump debate, an ugly spectacle we hope we never witness again.
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Trump, a Girl and a Big Purple Hat: Our Twitter/Instagram Favs
Beyond the campaign photos, we found a few other pictures with a little more heart.
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On David Butow's "Trump Country, Michigan"
In that territory between fact and myth, what the photo brings up is "the silent majority."
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News Photos of Police Protests: More Profiling of Black Males
What we're seeing in these photo galleries is a replay of the stereotype associating young black men with criminal and savages.
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How Science is Pictured in the Media and Public Culture: A Joint Reading the Pictures/Seeing Science (UMBC) Salon
This joint Reading the Pictures/UMBC Salon is interested in science as a social agenda and how science images are being portrayed in visual culture.
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Between the Hajj and Hijab: New Picture of Islam for U.S. Audiences
Despite my generally positive reaction to these photo projects, depicting Islamic woman as 'just like us, but in hijab’ is still a limiting picture.
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Clinton/Trump I: Debate Pix We Latched On To
With Clinton-Trump I in the debate record book, here's a group of pictures that caught our eye.
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Girl Power, Sexism and that Viral Hillary Millennial Selfie Swarm
Where is the passion for Hillary, you ask? It’s there in the photo, plain as day.
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