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From Plymouth, CA: Is This a News Photo?
As a sometimes series, we're interested in how much a particular photo has informational value...
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Philip Montgomery: From a Harlem Frame Shop
What’s impressive about the photo is how it has both a pre- and post-9/11 meaning.
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Gaza Parting Shots: Hamas Revealed, Israel No But(t)s
Fitting of perhaps the most (visually and politically) polarizing news event I can remember, the parting imagery from Israel and Gaza could not be stranger and more cutting.
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Why There Aren’t Any Photos of Hamas Fighters (and Why the NYT, Tyler Hicks and Photographers Have Been Unfairly Blamed)
Let's call it "the drone factor."
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On Carolyn Cole’s Striking Photo of an Injured Muslim Woman in Gaza
Speaking for myself, I can hardly remember a news photo of a woman in a chador laying injured, let alone lying down.
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Gaza: What One Side Sees and What the Other Side Sees (GRAPHIC)
While media consumers are bombarded daily with the most gut wrenching images of dead and injured Palestinians, especially children, the battle rages as to whether the images represent atrocities or collateral damage and the use of human shields.
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Elmo, the Illegal
But, when the coverage starts to pivot on undocumented immigrants and their identification as glorified panhandlers, the story and the photo assume a different inflection.
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Thoughts on That Beautiful Gaza "Leaflet Sky"
This photo just feels so wrong to me right now.
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Between Israel and Gaza, How the Pictures Could Possibly Relate
What does it even mean to do justice to the soul-crushing photos pouring out of Gaza and Israel these past three weeks? And then where does balance come into it?
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George and Angela
Frankly, the caption raises a lot more questions than it answers in what otherwise makes sense as a moment I would never have gotten to see.
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Defusing the Air Strike
The impetus for the photo-illustration is to take over, handle and re-animate the bloody hell.
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David Frum Accuses NYT and Reuters of Staging Gaza Hospital Photos (GRAPHIC)
Certainly, these organizations have better uses of their time right now -- including, keeping their photographers alive while adhering to ethical standards -- without having to contend with libelous charges being leveled on impulse.
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Gaza's 9/11?
Depending on how associative your mind is, this AP photo from Gaza City can be seen to draw an analogy between 9/11 and the shattering hurt still unfurling in Gaza this deathly season.
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Israel/Gaza: Photos at Two Ends of a Week
Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
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The Skies These Days are a Fiery Hail
What with all the jetliners and missiles falling out if the sky, what's truly stunning about this photo is that all those projectiles are simply weather.
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I Could Show you Photos from the Air Strike on the Beit Hanoun U.N. School Yesterday. Or….
What is commanding the world's attention in this latest war and the Israeli bombardment is the toll it has taken, and continues to take on children.
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Israeli War: How the Cracks Are Beginning to Show (in 4 Wire Photos)
These photos reflect the growing sense that Israel and the IDF are not going to survive this latest war with the swagger intact.
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Yes, News Photos are Becoming More Graphic ... and Beautiful
I think the degree of artistry and the level of poetry in these photos only increases with the horror. Apparently, the artistry is acting like a buffering agent, the beauty and mystique confounding the more amplified violence and gore.
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And Then, There's Burma
While the world is fixated on Gaza, the Muslims in Burma/Myanmar bear the added trauma of being ignored or considered not worth saving.
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These Are the Days of Scorched Earth
It seems fateful phrases are coming more easily at the moment than regular words.
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